How to enable the (new) GUI VM?

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@barto

the system is still pretty much unusable as no apps can be run in any other DomU than sys-gui, and Dom0 is only reachable through text console (Ctrl-Alt-F2).

I am sorry that I don’t understand, but isn’t that the point of sys-gui(-xxx) at all? Not to have any domU out of it? Just dom0? Isn’t sys-gui supposed to be new “dom0”, that is AdminVM? In which you’d have to recreate all new set up - templates, appVM and all other qubes?

Ref:

How to create an AdminVM in R4.1?

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