Hi,
I've been running Qubes for a few years now and I'd like to give
Spectrum a try, as I've been having some hardware and performance
problems with Qubes. Is there some up-to-date guide I can follow? I
found https://alyssa.is/using-virtio-wl/#demo and was able to see the
weston terminal. I also tried updating to the latest commit and was
able to get a nested wayfire window with:
nix-build . -A spectrumPackages && ./result-3/bin/spectrum-vm
(I'm fairly new to Nix, so not sure if this is the right way to do things)
I managed to change the keyboard layout, mount a tmpfs for home, and
increase the memory enough to start firefox, but I haven't managed to
get much further. Things I tried so far:
- I tried replacing wayfire with weston-terminal, to avoid the nested
session. But sommelier segfaults when I do that.
- I tried adding `--shared-dir /tmp/ff:ff:type=9p` to share a host
directory. Then `mount -t 9p -o trans=virtio,version=9p2000.L ff /tmp`
in the VM seemed to work, but `ls /tmp` crashed the VM.
- I tried using `-d /dev/mapper/disk` to share an LVM partition, but
`mount -t ext4 /dev/vdb /tmp` refused to mount it.
- I tried enabling networking with `--host_ip 10.0.0.1`, etc, but it
said it couldn't create a tap device. I guess it needs more
privileges.
Ideally, I'd like to run a VM with each of my old Qubes filesystems,
to get back to where I was with my Qubes setup, before investigating
new spectrum stuff (e.g. one app per VM). Do you have any advice on
this? I see these lists are a bit quiet - I hope someone is still
working on this because it sounds great :-)
Thanks!
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Puck has created a video demonstrating the work she's been doing with
the in-development Wayland security-context protocol [1], which allows a
Wayland compositor to distinguish between applications running in
different sandboxes (e.g. in different VMs).
The video is available at
https://diode.zone/w/2n3kKNNjXFkSWUwyjT3hgt
Or alternatively,
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:f340dfd391be0cabbb0638eb8af6659214c5d821&dn=puck%27s%20video%20720p.mp4&tr=https%3A%2F%2Fdiode.zone%2Ftracker%2Fannounce&ws=https%3A%2F%2Fdiode.zone%2Fstatic%2Fstreaming-playlists%2Fhls%2F0b093345-a100-4051-b4c3-37292af48c81%2F176adb94-167a-4cb7-b954-a09b301c4d80-720-fragmented.mp4
As part of this work, she updated the draft wlroots and Sway
implementations to support the latest proposed version of the protocol,
exposed the security context information to Sway configuration hooks,
and created a draft crosvm implementation of exposing security context
information to the compositor.
There's some more information in Puck's post to the Spectrum development
mailing list. [2]
Thanks to NLnet and NGI Zero for funding this project.
[1]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/68
[2]: https://spectrum-os.org/lists/archives/spectrum-devel/5cf20f6f-9d89-4cf9-91…
