Qubes 2 Beta 1!

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[h=1]Qubes 2 Beta 1![/h]by Mayuresh on December 31, 2012

Our first post regarding the Qubes OS can be found here. A few days ago Qubes 2 Beta 1 was released! This is the first Beta for Qubes Release 2 and introduces generic support for fully virtualized AppVMs (called HVMs in common Xen speak), and specifically initial support for Windows-based AppVMs integration.

“Qubes implements Security by Isolation approach. To do this, Qubes utilizes virtualization technology, to be able to isolate various programs from each other, and even sandbox many system-level components, like networking or storage subsystem, so that their compromise don’t affect the integrity of the rest of the system.

Qubes lets the user define many security domains implemented as lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs), or “AppVMs”. E.g. user can have “personal”, “work”, “shopping”, “bank”, and “random” AppVMs and can use the applications from within those VMs just like if they were executing on the local machine, but at the same time they are well isolated from each other. Qubes supports secure copy-and-paste and file sharing between the AppVMs, of course.”

[h=2]Changes made to Qubes:[/h]

• Support for generic fully virtualized VMs (without qemu in the TCB!)
  
• Support for Windows-based AppVMs integration (clipboard, file exchange, qrexec, pv drivers)
  
• Secure audio input to select AppVMs (Hello Skype users!)
  
• Clipboard is now also controlled by central policies, unified with other qrexec policies.
  
• Out of the box TorVM support
  
• Experimental support for PVUSB
  
• Updated Xorg packages in Dom0 to support new GPUs
  
• DisposableVM customization support
  
• … and, as usual, various fixes and other improvements
  

Something new this time – unlike the rest of Qubes, which is distributed under a GPL v2 license, the Qubes Windows Support Tools are not open sourced and are distributed as binaries only, under a proprietary license. They are free to use for any Qubes 2 user. The tools are not part of the Qubes 2 installation ISO (which is GPL), and are down loadable on demand.

Download Qubes:

Qubes 2 Beta 1 – Qubes-R2-Beta1-x86_64-DVD.iso

Sursa: Qubes 2 Beta 1! — PenTestIT