How to prevent fedora-33 from internal kernel updates

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Hi all,
I was wondering…as I understand the kernel for the templates-vm/app-vm is provided through xen-hypervisor. So why does fedora-33 download respectively update an internal kernel. Is there a way to prevent that since it is not needed?

Thanks in advance!

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There are occasions when you may want to use the native kernel rather
than the Qubes provided one.

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Is there a way to prevent it anyway?

4

Perhaps this may be helpful: Managing VM kernel | Qubes OS.

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You can stop any package from being updated as you choose.

In Fedora,edit /etc/dnf/dnf.conf and add a line like this in the [main]
section:
excludepkgs=kernel,kernel-core,kernel-debug-devel,kernel-devel

You can use wild cards here, (kernel*): it will apply to all
repositories.
You can also override this setting by using includepkgs in a
repository definition: there’s interplay between wildcards in the two
sections.
And you can override this by using dnf --disableexcludes=main.

In Debian, you mark the package with a hold :
sudo apt-mark hold <package_name>
sudo apt-mark showhold will (obviously) show you what is on hold.
sudo apt-mark unhold <package_name> will…

In Arch, edit pacman.conf, and use IgnorePkg = .. or IgnoreGroup =

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Man thanks for the reply that was helpful!

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IIRC you can just uninstall it.

Of course e.g. standalone VM clones won’t work anymore.

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Tried that as well…works fine for me…thanks.