System Documentation for Developers

• Qubes OS Architecture v0.3  (pdf) (A bit outdated, but it was the original document that started this all...)

• Security-critical elements of Qubes OS

• Qubes GUI virtualization protocol

• Networking in Qubes

• Inter-domain file coping

• Command execution in VM (and Qubes RPC)

• Dynamic memory management in Qubes

• Implementation of DisposableVMs

•  Article about disposable VMs

• Implementation of template sharing and updating

• Dom0 secure update mechanism

Build instructions:

• (outdated) Building Qubes core and gui packages: see this  message

• Building all Qubes packages

• KDE Dom0 packages for Qubes

• How to build Qubes installation ISO