On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 06:56:03AM -0700, Hugo Costa wrote:
> On Wednesday, 13 March 2019 11:12:46 UTC, unman  wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 04:53:02PM -0300, Franz wrote:
> > > I installed again windows following this
> > > https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/windows-vm/#xen-pv-drivers-and-qubes-windows-tools
> > > 
> > > Windows now is working and fully updated but no additional driver is
> > > installed.
> > > 
> > > Reading this tutorial many times, for me, it is not yet clear what the
> > > following means:
> > > 
> > > "If you plan to update your newly installed Windows VM it is recommended
> > > that you do so *before* installing Qubes Windows Tools (QWT). If QWT are
> > > installed, you should temporarily re-enable the standard VGA adapter in
> > > Windows and disable Qubes’ (see the section above)."
> > > 
> > > Does it mean that once QWT is installed I can no more regularly update my
> > > system, unless every time remember to do some strange and not well
> > > understood VGA tweaking?
> > > 
> > > This seems very strange because on 3.2 I always updated windows even if 
> > > QWT
> > > was already installed, with no issues.
> > > 
> > > So did this really change with Qubes 4.0
> > > 
> > > Best
> > 
> > That is the implication.
> > You could test this by updating *without* changing the adapter.
> > If everything works as expected, head over to
> > www.qubes-os.org/doc/windows-vm and edit that page.
> > You can help improve Qubes by doing this.
> 
> I believe the "don't update" message has always been there, it didn't change 
> from Q3.2 to Q4.x. But, obviously, the processes used to provide Qubes 
> integration may stop working due to a certain update, so it's a valid warning.
> 

I dont think that this is true - there was not a "dont update"
message and there isnt one now.
In the past there used to be a recommendation to re-enable the VGA adapter when
updating, so really I dont think that anything has changed.

unman

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