Hi, On 06/14/2016 12:34 PM, Jasper Weiss wrote:
There's some new documentation added to the website on reinstalling templates here <https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/reinstall-template/>
I guess many qubes users have a shared template they use for both sys-* vms and app vms (usually fedora23), so maybe there should be some notes about reinstalling the template sys-* vms (or other vms needed for network access) are based on. For instance:
- obviously there will be no network once you shutdown the sys-* vms, so how to download the template rpm and perform an offline installation ?
- Or, do vms really need to be stopped when updating the template's root.img ? IIRC in linux one can open() a file, delete it, create another file with the same name, but continue to read/write from the deleted file until a close(). A subsequent open() would then open the new file/inode. Maybe that'd work too with XEN or are there some caveats ?
Comments in previous posts also suggest using the --downloadonly option (currently only in fedora templates) in order to be able to use --action=reinstall in dom0. Would that allow skipping the "dummy template" steps ?. If yes, maybe make a note about that too ?
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