What happens during downloading template?

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Hello everyone.

I have a question: during downloading any template, why it is automatically started once downloaded and shut down? @deeplow @marmarek ?

I would later elaborate why I’m asking, but for now I wouldn’t want to potentially poison the point and the discussion itself.

Sorry to ping you guys this way, but I don’t want someone having no clear and straightforward answer hopefully pointing me to the resource that confirms it, to troll and/or hijack the topic.

Thanks in advance

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dom0 calls the template’s qubes.PostInstall qrexec service, which runs a couple of scripts in /etc/qubes/post-install.d/ in the template all calling back to dom0 to inform it of available applications and features.

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Hey, thanks! That’s a proper answer! Since I’m not tech savvy although I can somewhat read python, this means that the template is started to communicate exclusively with dom0? Sorry if my questions seem banal.

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Yeah exactly, it’s so that dom0 can ask the template what software is installed in it.

I don’t think they are!

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Thanks for confirming and clarifying. The idea was to be as anonymous as possible using Qubes. So the weakest link in this was downloading template (dom0’s netVM is sys-whonix) and not knowing if it’s contacting outside world via clear net in the process.

Concise, clear answers.