Possible to default unselect a qube in the update manager?

ephile · July 5, 2025, 7:27pm

I have legacy software that requires a no longer supported version of Debian. Since I don’t want to check for updates for this particular standalone qube, I disabled update checking with qvm-features. However, the Qubes update manager still selects this (OBSOLETE) qube by default. Is it possible to default this qube to be unselected in the update manager?

alimirjamali · July 5, 2025, 8:17pm

The feature you require exists in Qubes OS r4.3 but is not back-ported to r4.2. If you need this in r4.2, you could reply to this GIthub issue and ask for it:

github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues

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

opened 01:30PM - 10 Mar 24 UTC

closed 08:12PM - 04 Nov 24 UTC

EdGeraghty

C: Qubes GUI tools ux P: default pr submitted C: updates

### The problem you're addressing (if any) I have several qubes which are nev…er 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.

onoffonoff · June 19, 2026, 12:42pm

Has anyone got this to work? I have templates showing up that I think should be ignored.

My setup

Global Settings > Updates
- Enable check for updates on all existing qubes is enabled
- Except for the following qubes for which checking for updates is disable, where I list the templates I want to skip.

In qubes updater I have setting hide qubes with skip-update enabled.

But the templates I want skipped still show.

I have also tried disabling the update checker by going into the settings of the template and adding qubes-update-check in services and unchecking it.