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title: SystemDoc permalink: /wiki/SystemDoc

System Documentation for Developers

1. Fundamentals:

   1. Qubes OS Architecture v0.3 ​(pdf) (The original 2009 document that started this all...)

   2. Security-critical elements of Qubes OS

   3. Qubes RPC framework (qrexec):

      1. The Qubes RPC/Service API
      2. Example for writing a qrexec service in Qubes OS ​blog post
      3. qrexec implementation in Qubes R2
      4. qrexec implementation in Qubes R3/Odyssey

   4. Qubes GUI virtualization protocol

   5. Networking in Qubes

   6. Implementation of template sharing and updating

2. Services:

   1. Inter-domain file copying
   2. Dynamic memory management in Qubes
   3. Implementation of DisposableVMs
   4. ​Article about disposable VMs
   5. Dom0 secure update mechanism
   6. VM secure update mechanism?

3. Debugging:

   1. Profiling python code
   2. Test environment in separate machine for automatic tests
   3. VM-dom0 internal configuration interface
   4. Debugging Windows VMs

4. Building:

   1. Building Qubes
   2. Development Workflow
   3. KDE Dom0 packages for Qubes
   4. How to build Qubes installation ISO
   5. Building USB passthrough support (experimental)
   6. Building a TemplateVM based on a new OS (ArchLinux example)
   7. Building the Archlinux Template