Re: [Xen-users] Upgrading fedora domUs

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Williamson wrote:
> > Hello, all.  I know the real answer is to throw out the old systems :)
> > but we have some old systems still running on Xen 2.0.7 with Fedora Core
> > 3.  We have a need to upgrade some of these.  Xen was installed from
> > source as we did need to customize the kernel.
> >
> > How does one do this? In fact, how does one upgrade domUs in general?
> >
> > In our test lab, I attempted to upgrade an FC3 domU to FC4 via yum.  The
> > upgrade eventually succeeded but the domU now crashes on boot with these
> > nasty messages:
> >     
> Fedora generally recommend against upgrading directly using Yum.  Do you have 
> the domUs installed on separate partitions?  If so, you could boot the entire 
> box using the FC4 installer CD and tell it to upgrade each domU to FC4.  
> Rebooting into Anaconda is the recommended way, AFAIK.
>   
Or copy the FC3 to a separate location, and do the upgrades in a chroot 
there for testing?
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