On Sunday, November 26, 2017 at 4:31:35 AM UTC, [email protected] wrote: > I recently made a kali template vm by cloning the qubes debian 8 template and > converting it to kali. > > If I were to remove the base debian 8 template from dom0, would this also > remove the cloned kali template vm?
I imagine it's possible to see directly if your kali is acting like a debian-8 template, despite being converted to kali. I'm not entirely sure how to go about that though, maybe wait till someone can answer this possibility. As far as I know though, it will yes. But I'm only almost sure, someone might say otherwise. Just, don't take the risk unless you're ready for the possibility of loosing it. qvm-remove should remove specific VM's, while dnf remove should remove all of the templates and copies thereof. You could however perform a hack, and make a backup of your template. Then ensure the integrity of the backup, and then throw yourself into deepwater and see if you can remove only one of them. If the other also goes, then you can rely on your backup to return it. Just be sure to have multiple of backups for anything important data. Though templates shouldn't be much of a loose for you if it turns out badly? I mean, you can just re-install all the app's you require in a fresh new template. I.e. 'qubes-dom0-update qubes-template-debian-8' would re-install your debian 8 template if it is lost, and then you can just re-install all your apps in a whole new fresh template. So that's 3 different approaches. Also you would need somewhere to temporary put your AppVM template in your AppVM settings, i.e. debian-9 maybe if you got it installed? Then just don't start it until it's back to debian-8 template. Possibly you can use a fedora temporary template too, since if you don't start it, then ""nothing should"" be changed in the home folder. Just be very careful and have redundancy backups if you're doing this on anything important. Perhaps, the better question is why do you want to remove debian-8? Is it to gain drive space? Maybe there are other solutions you can have a look at for that, i.e. checking if trimming is working as it should. In Qubes 3.2. trimming is manual, in Qubes 4 it's supposed to be automatic. Which Qubes are you on? -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/2bbe751b-641a-4452-992e-ac1077ffe2d1%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
