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Ability to hide (a) qube(s) from updates #9029

Open EdGeraghty opened 3 months ago

EdGeraghty commented 3 months ago

The problem you're addressing (if any)

I have several qubes which are never going to receive updates - currently these qubes are visible in the update manager, but they are clutter

The solution you'd like

The ability to hide (a) qube(s) from the updating functionality

The value to a user, and who that user might be

It means we can select all in the update manager rather than having to choose qubes individually. This will benefit anyone running a Windows 10/11 HVM, TempleOS, or a number of other guests such as the mirage-os unikernel.

jamke commented 3 months ago

Some binary prefs like disable_updates came be added to qubes to manage this feature. Looks useful as some qubes (offline) with fixed version of software can indeed be expected not to be updated.

deeplow commented 3 months ago

I wonder if this is what the updateable preference is for. The docs don't clarify much about the intended purpose:

updateable True if this machine may be updated on its own.

However it cannot be changed by the user. I wonder what the reasoning is (maybe footshooting prevention).

[user@dom0 ~]$ qvm-prefs fedora-39-xfce updateable False
qvm-prefs: error: property 'updateable' on TemplateVM instance cannot be set