Is there anything special about default sys-whonix?

[Cardij]

I would like to make a fresh sys-whonix but I wonder if I delete sys-whonix and then make a new sys-whonix am I messing things up? Is there anything special about the sys-whonix that the system creates for me? I don’t know much about salt but is it somehow “tied” to the default sys-whonix?

[Patrick]

Not from anything Whonix does.

Any potential bugs in Qubes dom0, I don’t know. That is best asked at Qubes support. As per:

What to post in this Qubes-Whonix forum and what not.

As a rule of thumb: Everything that happens “inside” the virtual machines is Qubes-Whonix and belongs into this sub forum. Everything that happens “outside” the virtual machine is Qubes and the Qubes help should be consulted. Some examples: EFI → Qubes support Errors by by Qubes VM Manager (QVMM) → Qubes support libvirtError → Qubes support Issues that also apply to Debian based VMs. → Qubes support error: Failed to save domain whonix-ws-dvm to /var/lib/qubes/appvms/whonix-ws-dvm/dvm-savef…

In an ideal world, there shouldn’t be any issues. In theory, there might be issues. I didn’t run into such issues when deleting sys-whonix yet but in an earlier version of Qubes my dom0 got broken by removing an older, no longer used Fedora template (unreported).