On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 06:29:48AM -0700, John Mitchell wrote: > On Tuesday, April 9, 2019 at 2:53:25 PM UTC+2, unman wrote: > > <snip> > > > Do you run Qubes? On what hardware? > > I wanted to use Qubes however I didn't feel that my usage case would be > supported here so I opted for Xubuntu running QEMU and Virtual Machine > Manager. I have it working, responding here from a VM. I've been following > Qubes since version 1, just not using because of the many security features. > > AMD Ryzen 2700X, 8 cores, 16 threads > 32 GB ram > GeForce GT 1030 (desktop GPU) > Radeon RX 590 (gaming GPU, pass through, also working) > > The gaming GPU is blocked in the kernel from the host OS (Xubuntu) with > virtio. I suppose virtio could be a security risk. The host OS is > restricted to 4 GB (hugepages) and one core (two threads). I have RAID 10 > running on the host CPU. KVM shares the host memory however it has one core > for itself for iothreads, etc. The rest is available for VMs. Neither of > the two CPUs for the host and KVM have ever maxed usage for longer than half > a second. > > I was planning to use bcache to speed up the RAID although I may skip that > since I am not feeling a need for speed. RAID 10 is plenty fast when the > drives are not spun down. I have SMART monitoring setup too along with temp > and fan monitoring. The host runs from an SSD. Next month I will add a > backup solution. > > I have some bloat in the host that I need to clean up. Overall it is a solid > setup, certainly not as secure as Qubes. However I don't believe I would > have this working with Qubes. > Thanks John: I hope you'll come back to Qubes in the future.
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