Fedora-36 to 37 upgrade and sys-usb dvm - how to?

[code9n]

After upgrading to fedora-37 I tried to upgrade the sys-usb to run on fedora-37-dvm from fedora-36-dvm but it won’t happen.
I ran:

qvm-shutdown --wait --all; qvm-prefs <SYS_USB_DISPOSABLE_TEMPLATE> template <NEW_TEMPLATE>; qvm-start <USB_QUBE>

as per documents:

Templates

My question is: Does <NEW_TEMPLATE> , in the instructions, mean the disposable template, ie fedora-37-dvm or the base template, fedora-37?

I’m sure in the past I’ve run that command with fedora-xx-dvm as the <NEW_TEMPLATE> and it’s worked properly but I just ran it and it did not change the dvm that sys-usb runs on.
Fortunately it just left it the same as before and restarted it so I did not lose access - my keyboard and mouse use sys-usb.

The documentation makes it look like by <NEW_TEMPLATE> they mean fedora-37, but I’m wary of trying it.

I’ve tried rebooting.

Thanks

[tempmail]

It’s not answer on your question, but this is how I do upgrades. Hopefully at least it might give you an idea to find yourself’s most convenient way to do it.

The Fedora release cycle is too short

I agree, or at worst I suspected it’s all about money. What I do is: download fedora-current-minimal, then [user@fedora-EOL~]$ sudo dnf repoquery --qf ‘%{name}’ --installed | grep -v – ‘-debuginfo$’ | grep -v ‘^(kernel-modules|kernel|kernel-core|kernel-devel)$’ > pkgs_a.lst [user@fedora-EOL~]$ datamash transpose < pkgs_a.lst > fedora-EOL.lst then [user@fedora-current~]$ sudo dnf install content-of-fedora-EOL.lst clean entries that are reported as issue by dnf, and run it again and I get…

[adw]

@code9n

My question is: Does <NEW_TEMPLATE> , in the instructions, mean the disposable template, ie fedora-37-dvm or the base template, fedora-37?

A template is not the same as a disposable template, so it definitely doesn’t refer to that. <NEW_TEMPLATE> refers to the new template.

[code9n]

Thanks @adw . That has changed the template the dvm is based on to fedora-37 as I wanted.

The documentation was clear in saying that, I just thought I remembered differently.

The only minor issue is that the dvm sys-usb is running on is still named fedora-36-dvm. I can’t shut it down to change it’s name.

I can make a clone with the correct name but not shut sys-usb down to change to that dvm.

I expect the

@code9n

qvm-shutdown --wait --all; qvm-prefs <SYS_USB_DISPOSABLE_TEMPLATE> template <NEW_TEMPLATE>; qvm-start <USB_QUBE>

command can be modified to rename it though.

Any suggestions gratefully accepted or I can look through the docs tomorrow.

Thanks again.

[tempmail]

Thanks for ignoring.

If you would use GUi, things would be much easier. Clone sys-usb-36, name it sys-usb-37 and base it on fedora-37-dm. Attach the same USB-controller to it and set autostart. Update RPC polices with the new sys-usb-37 names, so you could access your mouse and keyboard.

Uncheck autostart for sys-usb-36.

Reboot.

Delete sys-usb-36.

[code9n]

@tempmail ,you’re right, I did ignore you. I apologise. I’ll do what you suggest.

Thanks.