-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 02:11:42AM -0000, johnyju...@sigaint.org wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > Any chance that there will be added in the feature for snapshots? > > even CoW snapshots would be good, then a consolidation option once done. > > > > I have one issue where I want to do something, but I have to 7z the VM > > before I can do anything to it in-case it breaks. > > > > I know that there are CoW options there, but how do I access them? > > You already use the technology since 2.0, but I have not seen it go > > anything beyond that for the dispvm and the like. > > > > the AppVMs, they have CoW for them, but it's not persistant on the CoW > > file, that file is destroyed after the VM is shut down. > > > > I tried changing it to not be destroyed on shutdown when it used a CoW > > file, but Qubes just tell me to get stuffed and destroys it once the guest > > is shut down. > > > > How can I fix this please? > > AppVM's are designed to toss changes, other than /home, /rw, /usr/local. > It's a good thing; if one gets compromised, it's a temporary compromise. > :) > > If you want permanent changes, update your template. > > But it sounds like you might want a "standalone VM": > > https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/software-update-vm/ > > Also, using BTRFS as a root (or VM host) filesystem should allow you to > snapshot/rollback the standalone VM to your heart's content (and clone it > instantly). BTRFS is all about the copy-on-write.
Also in case of templates, you have qvm-revert-template-changes, which will rollback changes done during last template run. Currently only one such revision is stored. In Qubes 4.0 there will be (actually this is already implemented) an option to keep multiple of them, and not only for templates, but also for normal AppVMs. - -- Best Regards, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki Invisible Things Lab A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJX6Oj4AAoJENuP0xzK19csboIH/0Ia7XuTrCdSABbE13MmTCvX m87DVH/N37DOIyh6eCIfp47ybtBiPlfm66OgSmmjca4ROk/WPPaMNDOeVSSnbJpx rL4b3BDIFlfnWgdxEWGTlkpKq/VogvF+3A1WN1QpgQ0Ek2mRURqthYcQifiZ4ivI NbHuwnn5USpfq2G5wLETbgxb/WvPDTbKACkEAvr+YpGgirKP2rJcMutkqwArgo1h YhMzYPdGODh1TI16kLGrTg4xr4D4W9MLfSwxxf8rclFxRlSFC0ygemwF3H7dYrCa 0HQMYb1a2XEF4q4RXxiztBdKjwLUKW5suni3DvbaSWcpxcI8Yq+GI5DLllls0h8= =bIXB -----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/20160926092304.GW31510%40mail-itl. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
