Whonix-Gateway connects to tor however Whonix-Workstation does not

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Hi there, so I was using Whonix KVM on my older laptop with Ubuntu as host and it was working fine, however I moved to a different laptop now, Ubuntu host again, I copied over my older VM and reconfigured everything as I had in the previous laptop but this time the Gateway connects, I tested the Tor Connection, apt update, systemcheck, everything works fine but when it comes to the Workstation, it sdwdate gives an error, “onion-time-pre-script detected a known permanent (until the user fixes it) error status. Consider running systemcheck for more information.
Systemcheck first of all gives Tort Control Port could not be reached, Attempt 1 of 5 and 5 of 5 and then tells me to make sure Gateway is running, to run systemcheck on Gateway etc.

I have the old laptop right here, I have tried to dumpxml from there so that it takes exactly the same settings, no luck, re-extracted from the tar archive and set everything up, no luck yet again. Made sure the gateway, workstation and host are on the same timezone as well

Any idea what else I should check?

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Did you remember to set up the Whonix-Internal and Whonix-External networks properly? This sounds a lot like your Whonix-Internal network isn’t set up right.

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Yes, as far as I know, I did, I even used the fresh Whonix_internal_network.xml from the archive just in case I messed up the old xml file, I did virsh net-undefine, net-destroy, restarted my host and then defined the network again.