@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! On Friday, May 1, 2020 at 5:22:42 PM UTC, Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves wrote: > > On 2020-05-01 17:48, brend...@gmail.com <javascript:> wrote: > > On Friday, May 1, 2020 at 12:39:54 AM UTC-4, seshu wrote: > > > > One question that just occured to me about upgrading the template > > VM's. Many of the comments and posts in this forum are assuming > > Qubes is installed on a laptop. I have it installed on a desktop, > > and my keyboard / mouse uses sys-usb. I need to have this appVM > > running to use the peripheral obviously. But, since the appVM is > > running, I can't update the templateVM? > > Hi! > > Before I had an additional USB controller for my keyboard and mouse, > which by the way is a great idea as good PS/2 devices are are to find > new, I used the following commands in dom0 > > $ qvm-stop --wait sys-usb; \ > qvm-prefs sys-usb template fedora-31; \ > qvm-start sys-usb > > This stops the sys-usb qube, changes the template and starts it again. > > Be careful and do not make any mistakes because if the sys-usb qube does > not start you might be locked out. > > Hope this helps. > > Cheers, > Miguel > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/c69af4b4-a44e-41c4-9d45-497f920fe583%40googlegroups.com.
