Testing Debian-11

There will shortly be new builds for 4.1 of the Debian-11 template.
It would be really useful for 4.1 users to:

  1. test the new template (I’ll let you know once it is available), and
  2. test the upgrade path from Debian-10.

The build for 4.0 is broken, so a new template wont be available for a
little while.
Until that is fixed, can you test the upgrade path from buster?

The upgrade instructions are at:

Please check that the bullseye template is a drop in replacement for
buster, and that all tools and processes work as expected, including the
Qubes Updater.

Look forward to hearing from you.

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Pinned the topic in this category to see if gets some more eyeballs.

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Around August 20th, I installed the brand new debian-11 template from itl-testing.

Yesterday, I started a test AppvM based on this template, as expected the Qubes Updater detected an update (DSA-4963-1 openssl) and installed it.

Then, I switched all my AppVM and DispVM from the debian-10 templates to the debian-11 templates. My sys-net and sys-firewall use also the debian-11 templates. So now, I no more use debian-10 stuff.

Also, I upgraded 2 HVM (minimal and XFCE) from debian-10 to debian-11.

I didn’t detect issues…

Tested:

  • [x] Qubes Updater
  • [x] AppVM base on debian-11 template
  • [x] DvmVM base on debian-11 template
  • [x] HVM upgrade from debian-10 to debian-11
  • [x] qvm-run, qvm-move, qvm-copy, qvm-open-*
  • [x] general usages (web-browsing, mail, terminal, open img/pdf documents)

Not tested

  • [ ] template upgrade from debian-10 to debian-11, and I won’t test it.
  • [ ] debian-11 minimal template, I’ll test it in the next days

My system is mainly debian-based. I use fedora-34 only for my builder AppVM and the default-mgmt-dvm.

If you want a specific test, ask and I’ll see if I can check it.

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Thanks @ludovic, that seems to cover all the bases, and coheres with my
experience, on 4.0 and 4.1

I have tested the upgrade path, and that also seems fine.
@Sven and I both use minimal templates, and have not encountered
issues.

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