Does it matter what name I choose for my VMs?

[enmus]

@fsflover

It should be pretty safe to name the qubes as is convenient to you.

Well, probably not exactly. Some things had to be taken into consideration, though

Where do I tell Qubes I renamed sys-whonix, so it doesn't break updates?

I renamed sys-whonix to something more useful (for me), and it broke the whonix-gw-16 template from updating DOH! I seem to remember there is somewhere in dom0 you can manually change it. This is something I will actually change, from time to time, as I use different sources (usually private VPN’s) to update tor templates. Thanks

Implications of changing the name of sys-net

I have created disposable sys-net, gave it a name sys-net-disposable, routed to it all VMs previously connected to sys-net, and then deleted sys-net. I have found an entry in 90-default.policy, which I changed to: #Default rule for all TemplateVMs - direct the connection to sys-net qubes.UpdatesProxy * @type:TemplateVM @default allow target=sys-net-disposable, and since I use sys-whonix, I didn’t succeed to find other occurrences in .../policy.d/, nor in .../policy/ folde…