RE: [Xen-users] Upgrade Proceedure

["Ian Tobin" <itobin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What happens if you don't have an initrd :)

The reason i say that is ive compiled everything into the kernel not as
modules

-----Original Message-----
From: Petersson, Mats [mailto:Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx] 
Sent: 14 May 2007 10:31
To: Ian Tobin; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Upgrade Proceedure

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Tobin [mailto:itobin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 14 May 2007 10:27
> To: Petersson, Mats; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Upgrade Proceedure
> 
> Oh ok seems straight forward, I assume the kernel config remains the
> same? i.e kernel drivers specified on first install are still in the
> config.

Ah, good point. If you have a "major" change, e.g. the kernel jumps from
2.6.16 to 2.6.18 or some such, then you also need to do (on target
system):
# depmod
# mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-xen 2.6.18-xen 
(Adjust version as applicable of course)

For very minor upgrades, it's often enough to copy just the xen.gz to
/boot on the target system - but that's if you know exactly what's
changed!

--
Mats
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Petersson, Mats [mailto:Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 14 May 2007 10:21
> To: Ian Tobin; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Upgrade Proceedure
> 
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ian Tobin [mailto:itobin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> > Sent: 14 May 2007 10:13
> > To: Petersson, Mats; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Upgrade Proceedure
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Is there an uninstall script? 
> 
> You can do "make uninstall", but you need to have the "old" version of
> source-code on the target machine to do this. [Which is great for
> developers that use the a single machine for Xen-development and
> testing]. 
> 
> 
> > And when you say tar up the 
> > dist directory
> > is that from one of the servers that is running the latest release
> > already?
> 
> I meant from the machine you build Xen from Sources on - if that's one
> of your servers or some other machine, I can't say. 
> 
> This is what I do:
> # cd $XEN_ROOT
> # make dist
> # tar cjf dist.tar.bz2 dist
> # scp dist.tar.bz2 some_machine:/tmp
> # ssh some_machine
> # cd tmp
> # rm -rf dist     ## Remove the OLD dist directory, if there is one.
> # tar xjf dist.tar.bz2
> # ./dist/install.sh
> # reboot
> # exit
> 
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> 
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Ian
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Petersson, Mats [mailto:Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx] 
> > Sent: 14 May 2007 10:10
> > To: Ian Tobin; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Upgrade Proceedure
> > 
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> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > > [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> > Ian Tobin
> > > Sent: 14 May 2007 09:27
> > > To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: [Xen-users] Upgrade Proceedure
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > We are looking to getting all our XEN boxes up to the latest 
> > > release.  The lowest version we have is 3.0.  
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > I was wondering what the best way to do an upgrade is, we 
> > > have built all the XEN boxes from source.
> > 
> > 
> > Tar up the "dist" directory and copy it to each of the new machines,
> > untar and run "dist/install.sh"?
> > 
> > Only problem is if you need to uninstall first - because there's no
> > uninstall script... Usually you don't need to uninstall, 
> but sometimes
> > you do (because some residual file means that the wrong version of
> > library is used, or some such). 
> > 
> > --
> > Mats
> > > 
> > >  
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> > > Thanks
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> > > 
> > > Ian
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