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Windows and Guix TemplateVMs disk usage

Just installed Windows 111 in my QubesOS to be a TemplateVM. qubes-windows-tools did all the magic to seamlessly integrate with the system (persisting only user dir for AppVMs, RPC tools as qvm-copy, etc).

The .iso had 3.4GB, the TemplateVM qube became 10GB, got some prior failures due lack of free disk as it got larger than I expected, but everything gone smooth, easy installation. And that it runs well with only 4GB of RAM.

The window is still Windows desktop, not the opened application, but resizing it works.

For comparison, my main TemplateVM with the all the packages I use, managed with Guix:

  Disk usage
Windows 11 10GB
Guix Foreign 39.8GB

Footnotes:

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A modified version with removed MS features