VPN VM based on debian-10-minimal not working

[panati]

VPN VM based on debian-10-minimal are not working. Has anybody tried this recently?

[helge]

If your on 4.1 testing then yeah, no debian based VM are able to “Provide network” to other qubes.

[panati]

Yup, on 4.1.
sys-net, sys-firewall are also debian-minimal based and they are working.
Template for VPN VM contains debian-minimal and following-
openvpn
qubes-core-agent-networking
qubes-core-agent-nautilus
iptables

Am I missing something Package wise?

[tasket]

I can’t speak for -minimal templates, but since I enabled
“buster-testing” repo and updated with that, my Debian VMs have been
working fine with openvpn and “provides network”.

[panati]

I am on testing version too. Not worked for me yet. Switched to fedora for time being and will try later if it gets resolved.

[Eric]

I know this is old and there is a lot of recent writing on deb-10-min config - but the simple recipe for minimal upgrade to current deb-10-min to run @tasker’s VPN scripts (in R4.0) is:
apt install qubes-core-agent-networking openvpn libnotify-bin

[ed: there is no notify daemon, so you don’t get them, that is what I prefer since I run lots in parallel and notifications are of limited use without a timestamp and one is showered with them when your internet goes down. The VPN scripts will error exit without notify-send.]

[deeplow]

@Eric

apt install qubes-core-agent-networking openvpn libnotify-bin

Exactly. This is the same issue as

(best) Split SSH setup guide

Finally followed this through! It all worked in the end I was having the same issue, following the process. The solution was to install fedora: libnotify and mate-notification-daemon debian: libnotify-bin and mate-notification-daemon This is the same issue as described here that broke so many people’s VPN configs. Maybe a note about this should be added to the guide.