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What Is Qubes OS?

(www.qubes-os.org)
224 points LinuxBender | 1 comments | 09 Jul 22 16:47 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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alildp ◴[10 Jul 22 04:35 UTC] No.32041902[source]▶
Used to use Qubes OS, quit because I could not figure out how to move files / share files between VMs securely / easily.

Want to try again, but a little concerned that AWS seems to have moved away from Xen.

One of the points that look like a plus to me, was that Qubes OS was based on a widely used, battle tested hypervisor, Xen.

The biggest cloud platforms looks like AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Microsoft Azure. I should check if what hypervisors they are using.

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alildp ◴[10 Jul 22 04:54 UTC] No.32041972[source]▶
I thought Microsoft Azure used only Hyper-V, but doc page mentions used of KVM. I am not sure how to interpret this.
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1. alildp ◴[10 Jul 22 04:56 UTC] No.32041978[source]▶
https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs/blob/main/articl...

  The hypervisors for preparation that are covered in this article are Hyper-V, kernel-based virtual machine (KVM), and VMware.
  KVM
  This section shows you how to use KVM to prepare a RHEL 6 or RHEL 7 distro to upload to Azure.
> Maybe this means that Azure is not using KVM, and only uses Hyper-V, but it can import KVM images?