Folks, it gives me great pleasure to announce the product of over two
years of work (primarily because I never paid enough attention to this
project to bring it to completion): Qubes network server.
The traditional Qubes OS networking model contemplates a client-only use
case. User VMs (AppVMs or StandaloneVMs) are attached to ProxyVMs, which
give the user control over outbound connections taking place from user
VMs. ProxyVMs in turn attach to NetVMs, which provide outbound
connectivity for ProxyVMs and other user VMs alike.
Qubes network server changes all that. With the Qubes network server
software, it becomes possible to make network servers in user VMs
available to other machines, be them peer VMs in the same Qubes OS
system or machines connected to a physical link shared by a NetVM. You
get actual, full, GUI control over network traffic, both exiting the VM
and entering the VM, with exactly the same Qubes OS user experience you
are used to.
This is all, of course, opt-in, so the standard Qubes OS network
security model remains in effect until you decide to share network servers.
Anyway, without further ado:
https://github.com/Rudd-O/qubes-network-server
Real easy: clone, build, install, test. I tested it with Qubes 3.1, but
it's very likely that it'll work fine in Qubes 3.2. I recommend you
test this on a Qubes machine that is not your main Qubes machine, but
the code does not do anything funky, and uninstalling the program should
be enough to revert your system back to its original state.
I hope we can turn this add-on into a core Qubes feature. As always,
contributions to the project — reports, code enhancements, pull
requests, other items — are very much welcome!
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Rudd-O
http://rudd-o.com/
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