On Sunday, 2 August 2020 22:42:31 UTC+8, Chris Laprise wrote: > > IIRC there is an option somewhere in 'qubesctl' for parallel template > updates. > > You can check out my github for some interesting stuff. The > 'Qubes-scripts' project has a (serial) template updater that lets you > select by certain criteria. It could be parallelized pretty easily. > > Since you have a lot of templates+standalones, the 'findpref' tool might > also be of interest. It can bulk search/replace VM prefs, such as > changing all the VMs that are using 'sys-vpn1' to use 'sys-vpn3' > instead, or change VMs to use a different template.
> I also wrote 'wyng-backup', a fast LVM incremental backup tool that only > scans where LVM reports new activity. > > Finally, there is a VPN tool and one to enhance VM internal security. > > -- > Chris Laprise, [email protected] <javascript:> > https://github.com/tasket > https://twitter.com/ttaskett > PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 > Hi Chris, After testing, the m7i solution works, but isn't ideal--it sometimes fails due to pipe errors and attempts to update all my appVMs as well, which might be problematic from a security standpoint. I looked in man qubesctl and didn't see anything for parallelizing updates, but since I'm hesitatnt to install salt management in my minimal templates to begin with, that's beside the point. I noticed that you have a qubes4-multi-update tool which I'm likely going to switch to, since parallelizing isn't my true concern, but clearing 10+ dom0 prompts for sudo authentication every time I update. Since qubes4-multi-update looks cleaner and also uses -u root, this seems to be promising. I'll report back. halt-vm-by-window and system-stats-xen seem incredibly promising since I constantly have xentop running and I'm looking to simplify my system to one app per VM. On that topic, I'm having huge difficulties making it so starting a qube, say app-firefox, automatically starts a program, like firefox. I've tried rc.local but that's pre-boot, before X11. Others have suggested something related to /etc/config or something, but that involves fiddling with templates and implies an ungodly amount of templates. Would you happen to have any suggestions? -- 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/282c1640-fe56-491a-8390-2bbf940adb55o%40googlegroups.com.
