Updating Qubes through VPN

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Hi,

I’ve had a quick Google and the standard answer seem to be to adjust the Global Settings, but that isn’t working.

When I run an update, the updates seem to be triggering Whonix to start and running that VM.

I have installed a VPN proxy VM, and would prefer that traffic went through that as it saves on having to run another VM. However I can’t find any setting or control to do this. I’ve made the adjustment in the Qubes Manager but it still seems to be going through Whonix.

Can anyone help me?

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The answer to this depends on how you are using your VPN, and where it
is positioned in the network order.
The proxy to use is configured in
/etc/qubes-rpc/policy/qubes.UpdatesProxy - my guess is that you have
this configured to use sys-whonix. Just change that to use the proxy you
want.

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That was it - thanks!

I can’t seem to get it to accept my proxyVM, but I guess that is me duffing up the syntax. I’ll play about it with some more.

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(@JustAnotherQubesUser, I have adjuested the title to make it easier to find. Feel free to edit it if you feel it doesn’t reflect your issue)