hi is there any possibility to see when a qube was created? i hoped to see this information in the settings or in qube manager. thanks for help
There is no (currently) an easy way to see this in Qubes native tools (the GUI or CLI ones). I might be wrong about this.
You could use Thunar in dom0 and go to /var/lib/qubes. Then find the folder containing the private volume of your qube and checkout its creation date.
There are for sure other ways. The above solution is just and example.
As for adding an option to qube Manager (or maybe qvm-volume) to show creation date, it is a valid feature request IMHO. If you have a Github account, you may submit a feature request for this.
Don’t look at a volume file though, it may not exist (LVM installation layout) or if it does exist (Btrfs/XFS) it’s replaced with a new file during each qube start/shutdown cycle. Look at the directory:
user@dom0:~$ stat /var/lib/qubes/appvms/foo
[...]
Birth: 2025-11-16 15:39:30.209695758 +0000
In case this qube named foo was restored from a backup, the timestamp wouldn’t show the original creation date but the restore date.
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Yes. In my case, I am using BTRFS. And it indeed shows the original creation date. But directory creation date is a better alternative.
Maybe we should consider restore a fresh rebirth and new start.
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You mean the private.img file’s birth time is the creation date of the qube? I think that’s only the case if revisions_to_keep == -1, or if the qube was never started.
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Just looked again. Yes. you are right. It was a qube with revisions_to_keep == -1.