-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 11:07:23PM -0800, Andrew David Wong wrote: > On 2016-12-12 13:38, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 08:04:00PM +0100, Leeteqxv wrote: > >> So I am really looking for which files/folders I need to copy > >> from the old system into the new installation, or, alternatively, > >> if I can "migrate" or point the new system to create a new > >> Template and a new AppVM by pointing it to a folder on the old > >> disk to use as a template for the creation. How can this be > >> done? > > > > You can copy appropriate directories from /var/lib/qubes/ related > > to that VMs into your new installation (make sure to place them in > > exactly the same location: appvms/ or vm-templates/), then use > > qvm-add-template (for templates) and qvm-add-appvm (for appvms) to > > register them in Qubes. Do not override any files, if VM with the > > same name already exists, rename or remove it first. After this > > operation, proceed to template upgrade procedure you've already > > found. > > > > Thanks; I didn't know about these tools. In the case of AppVMs, how is > this different from creating a new AppVM with the same name as the old > one, then replacing the new private.img with the old one? Or do both > methods achieve the same effect?
It's mostly the same. Most of the files (besides private.img) are generated anyway. - -- 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 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJYUCGLAAoJENuP0xzK19cs2b8H/3HjU7YAYsDptQoyGSZtGIgr 9VlLq+ROPsketKu5g8Zgd5B5lkTvME/IxY+IRVWFSf98q2mde+ygRSbRYHOAbciu XkO39/PonoPKFJkSCD8KduBIGrxGdMzJC1S3d2+DNKQ/R80BdH4fowpGK7Q7Y677 ETjuj3qm/Om9II2dCneaPQYqGR2flAVugUKP6ReRGvw1Y/XxGSNowpJ/0wyVddxY G6QDLodZauhZaPLJ7jFpAF4F2AwR5Of452S/WK/OQGfEbCMSEImZMUewrMcBEFGx k3HaAPMMxALxcMqexw6lmMBXMkjS/mXZJVRGIXNvNbFXXREeQINKit19jM6SoN8= =efwT -----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/20161213162755.GA1180%40mail-itl. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
