No external interface after update

KVM
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I just ran upgrade-nonroot on my Debian 12 KickSecure host and on both KVM Whonix VM’s.

When I try to start the Whonix-gateway, I get the following error:

Error starting domain: Requested operation is not valid: network 'Whonix-External' is not active

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 72, in cb_wrapper
    callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 108, in tmpcb
    callback(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/object/libvirtobject.py", line 57, in newfn
    ret = fn(self, *args, **kwargs)
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/object/domain.py", line 1402, in startup
    self._backend.create()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 1373, in create
    raise libvirtError('virDomainCreate() failed')
libvirt.libvirtError: Requested operation is not valid: network 'Whonix-External' is not active

Can someone please tell me how to fix?
Everything was working prior to running the update command.

2

So I’ve spent all day trying to resolve this issue. I gave up and started from scratch.

The first thing that I tried was installing Kicksecure using the ISO. Then I ran the whonix-xfce-installer-cli command. I then imported the Whonix appliance. So I got it up and running but I must say virtualbox sucks compared to KVM. I didn’t like it at all and it was slow. Eventually, it stopped connecting to the Internet and I never did figure out how to add a proxy in front of Tor.

So I paved over that install and started from scratch, again. This time, I started out by installing Debian and then morphed to Kicksecure. I did this because I liked the desktop layout better than when I installed Kicksecure from the iso. I installed KVM this time. It’s been up and running for a couple of hours and all traffic goes to a proxy before Tor.

I don’t know what caused the original problem. All I did was update the host and both VM’s. Iptables was already installed.