From b2162b1af9f23c70a9d553df86db595caf0713a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wojciech Zygmunt Porczyk <wojciech@porczyk.eu>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 13:55:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Forbid renaming of RPM-borne VMs (mainly templates) (#839)

User can still clone VM and remove old via rpm/yum.
---
 core-modules/000QubesVm.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/core-modules/000QubesVm.py b/core-modules/000QubesVm.py
index f7eb27c0..e83e9000 100644
--- a/core-modules/000QubesVm.py
+++ b/core-modules/000QubesVm.py
@@ -506,6 +506,9 @@ class QubesVm(object):
         if not self.verify_name(name):
             raise QubesException("Invalid characters in VM name")
 
+        if self.installed_by_rpm:
+            raise QubesException("Cannot rename VM installed by RPM -- first clone VM and then use yum to remove package.")
+
         self.pre_rename(name)
 
         new_conf = os.path.join(self.dir_path, name + '.conf')