Hi everyone,
Just to make sure, when installing OS patches on a PV Xen environment, do you basically patch the Dom0 first and then patch the DomU's?
I've googled this on and off occasionally, but all I can really find are threads related to patching the Xen software itself, not the proper way to install OS patches to the environment and guest VMs.
Just for giggles, last night I did an "apt-get upgrade" on a DomU before running it on the Dom0 (without actually installing the patches on the DomU) to compare the patch list before and after installing them on the Dom0.
Before installing patches on the Dom0, there were a number of updates listed for the DomU, and after patching the Dom0, there weren't any. So my assumption is that in that particular case, patching the Dom0 pushed patches to the DomU as well.
I guess to that end -- are the only patches that would be needed on a DomU for software that's not installed on the Dom0? Or is there a line drawn in the sand somewhere that says "these patches will be pushed to the DomU's,
but these won't?"
I'm perfectly capable of reading the proverbial manual too, if anyone can point me in the right direction on where to find it
😉
(If it makes any difference, my environment is Debian Stretch.)
Chris
