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Re: [Xen-devel] Inplace upgrading 4.4.x -> 4.5.0



Monday, February 9, 2015, 9:35:33 AM, you wrote:

> Hello Steven,
> upgrades from Xen 4.4 to 4.5 are supposed to work out of the box.

> Please post more details and we'll try to help you figure out what's
> wrong.

> Cheers,

> Stefano

> On Sun, 8 Feb 2015, Steven Haigh wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I was under the impression that you should be able to do in-place
>> upgrades from Xen 4.4 to 4.5 on a system without losing the ability to
>> manage DomUs...
>> 
>> This would support upgrades from running systems from Xen 4.4.x to 4.5.0
>> - only requiring a reboot to boot into the 4.5.0 hypervisor.
>> 
>> When I try this in practice, I get a whole heap of permission denied
>> errors and lose control of any running DomUs.
>> 
>> Is there some secret sauce that will allow this to work?
>> 
>> -- 
>> Steven Haigh
>> 
>> Email: netwiz@xxxxxxxxx
>> Web: http://www.crc.id.au
>> Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897
>> 
>> 

You are probably running into a mismatch between the running hypervisor (4.4) 
and 
the now installed toolstack (4.5) .. for instance when trying to shutdown the 
VM's
to do the reboot. 
(Since the newly installed hypervisor parts are only loaded and run on the next 
boot).

--
Sander


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