qubes-prefs – List/set various global properties

Synopsis

qubes-prefs [-h] [–verbose] [–quiet] [–force-root] [–help-properties] [PROPERTY [VALUE|–default]]

Options

--help, -h

Show help message and exit.

--help-properties

List available properties with short descriptions and exit.

--hide-default

Do not show properties that are set to the default value.

--verbose, -v

Increase verbosity.

--quiet, -q

Decrease verbosity.

--default, -D

Reset propety to default value.

--get, -g

Ignored; for compatibility with older scripts.

--set, -s

Ignored; for compatibility with older scripts.

Common properties

This list is non-exhaustive. For authoritative listing, see --help-properties and documentation of the source code.

clockvm

Qube used as a time source for dom0

default_template

Default template for newly created qubes

default_fw_netvm

Default netvm for qubes providing network (with provides_network property set to True).

default_netvm

Default netvm for qubes not providing network

default_kernel

Default value for kernel property, see qvm-prefs(1) for details.

default_pool

Default storage pool for new qubes.

default_pool_kernel, default_pool_private, default_pool_root, default_pool_volatile

Default storage pool for particular volume for new qubes. Defaults to value of default_pool.

stats_interval

Interval (in seconds) at which VM statistics are sent. This is for example used by domains widget - this often memory usage will be refreshed.

updatevm

Qube used to download dom0 updates

Authors

Joanna Rutkowska <joanna at invisiblethingslab dot com>
Rafal Wojtczuk <rafal at invisiblethingslab dot com>
Marek Marczykowski <marmarek at invisiblethingslab dot com>
Wojtek Porczyk <woju at invisiblethingslab dot com>