On Fri, 2020-05-01 at 21:24 -0700, seshu wrote: > @Miguel thanks! > > and thanks to everyone who provided feedback, this was really > educational > for me. I'm not quite a qubes newbie, but I'm not an expert either. > > The idea from Brend was too sophisticated for me and so I was nervous > about > it. I decided to go with Miguel's approach and that was great. One > change > though. The qvm-stop is now qvm-shutdown, so the instructions I > needed to > use are: > > $ qvm-shutdown --wait sys-usb; \ > qvm-prefs sys-usb template fedora-31; \ > qvm-start sys-usb > > it all work quick and painlessly. This really should be added to the > instructions for updating a templateVM. I'll see if I can add that > into > the documentation. > > Thanks again everyone! > That's good to know. I shall complete this into a script that reverts the change if anything goes wrong.
Sven wrote: > So make sure to remove those from your grub/EFI config before > rebooting! > The USB qube will work anyway but if it's not running dom0 will have > USB. If you skip this step you won't be able to control your computer > after reboot. > > We have a tragic case of this every other month in this list. Hearing this, I will postpone following dhorf's advice to create a sys- usb until I am more familiar with the inner workings of Qubes OS. If it was really unrisky and straightforward scripting, why did the Qubes OS installer not offer this choice, let alone just do it? Olaf -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/5ae8793a6804f944bd190bde45dcd9999c7be955.camel%40aatal-apotheke.de.
