On 9/3/22 5:56 AM, Ulrich Windl wrote: > Hi ! > > So eventually I decided to upgrade my Qubes OS installation by backup, > install, then restore. > Unfortunately I'm stuck, and here is my negative experience: > First when using a custom disk layout, i.e.: reuse VG and LV from the current > installation, I noticed that I van only assign swap if I select to reformat > it. Then it's selected automatically; otherwise it's ignored. > Next it's recommended to reformat the root snd boot filesystems, but noting > got the LVs. So ehen trying to install the debian-11 template it failed, > template installation was aborted, snd I found to way to resume or restart. > See attachment. So I restarted everything, also deleting the LVs for the VMs > (which is not easy from the installation environment). > When installation had finished eventually, I tried to restore my VMs, but I'm > offered just the basic net and firewall VMs. So I wonder how to do that. > Also I wondered why there is no "import VM" function when the LVs for the VM > are still (already) there. I didn't delete the LVs of one of my VMs. > > So in summary the installer snd the documentation should be improved. > > Regards, > Ulrich > P.S.: Typed on my mobile, so there are probably several typing errors I did > not detect. >
I don't really know anything about custom disk layouts, but have you tried restoring by following these instructions? https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/how-to-back-up-restore-and-migrate/#restoring-from-a-backup If so, where exactly did you encounter a problem (i.e., which step)? -- 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/c8a8f977-c5c1-cc83-3ae4-43f5ec2392fe%40qubes-os.org.
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