On 09/21/2018 05:30 PM, Chris Laprise wrote:
> On 09/21/2018 05:10 PM,
lik...@gmx.de wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> there are several topics in the documentation pointing to the location
>> of files like: root.img, volatile.img, private.img
>> here:
>>
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/hvm/
>> or here:
>>
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/windows-template-customization/
>> or here:
>>
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/reinstall-template/
>>
>> All of them are refering to a location of these file to:
>> /var/lib/qubes/{appvms,vm-templates}/MY_VM/
>>
>> Unfortunately, as of version 4.0 I cannot find these files there.
>> Where did they moved to?
>
> The R4.0 default is to use thin-provisioned lvm for storage instead of
> image files. You can think of these "logical volumes" as being like
> partitions and they have device entries under /dev/mapper. To view and
> manipulate them directly you'll need to use lvm commands like "lvs" and
> "lvrename" etc. although its best to first try using the qvm-* commands
> like "qvm-volume".
system will boot from an lvm volume named "vm-work-root-snap". This is