-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2016-09-19 13:36, johnyju...@sigaint.org wrote: >> I've finally got Qubes set up in a way I'm comfortable working every day. >> >> Now I wanted to move that same installation to another drive for its >> permanent home. > > Oh, I also meant to ask this: > > Does all of the Template/VM state live in /var/lib/qubes? Obviously the > machines' disks do, and it appears that the metadata associated with them > lives in /var/lib/qubes/qubes.xml (not human readable, tho'). > > Is this correct? If I do a fresh install of Qubes, and (with no VM's > running) bring over my whole /var/lib/qubes directory from another > installation, reboot, would I be good to go? Or are there other subtle > things in dom0's root drive that would be out of kilter? >
I'm not sure whether this would work (never tried it). If possible, I'd recommend using the built-in backup/restore system instead. This is the recommended way to migrate to a fresh installation. https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/backup-restore/ - -- Andrew David Wong (Axon) Community Manager, Qubes OS https://www.qubes-os.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJX4Sv/AAoJENtN07w5UDAwf1MQALeO+ai7E2z0NiJJTPKa+NwB 68J3DWKf/wss00VeVaiPNqBtyaAgwNnXcDx2Ay87gt6UIVntQC3GYoFYjWtnYM5b 6tTCPIotZ8U1ma4FpYUMz9v944Qqs7nviV45QRGgkzCrnlk21Gjz2yA2hzbT/Slw Fv8RYxCaHdi+3FIpknxQB/bAtnM353fVRxBHADCY1XSbhUKqoEyhy/Z1G7ZlVkvE qKoTimTBLFp565z0OIDMLA/kFvJBav51g2Nfsz30szlzx2IxEL970E4PcyXeTFXu 6CzuSIWHXPD7d9BDHKKFal024IvZMDBHRZ7ZWt/xOSNAeJM4nKwqBa5pg7OwKEYT gwJJmsCNHccxbRAHtSw2ifNrX2iTvub4qNZEb8Ll4jWOLU6nVhJxG8cnFdcGe8SQ UKhWlGdqfdI4zELuXHxvjtkCdMvHC1ACwUdHggDt/uw01t3XX/OlCEsSVUQ48iQa rtZ3B8UAmxiX65e81UAGQtxTFmSUMwuO1Fma9bpOLjjXgFp8Be3SfdjTHsb4qvd0 oHFbmpt2qxVzO4pIWQynX4s8zVoxBdtS3Qg4sf7/Pv/xR05EYQANBXLTe+OavG3B zVuQdIX9PgtmAHljIJRPjyrHU8CCvBkHaSuvLb3o8yHwhS2IQY2vkd1DsNACTD60 ctKniI1LTcqlWOYdfaTI =KR2L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/1a3c4248-9a1e-7d6b-668d-64da7a14d272%40qubes-os.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
