Re: [Xen-users] new installation of the base operating system

["Abri Nation" <abrination@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2007/4/14, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>:

Abri Nation wrote:
>
> Hi @all,
>
> i have to install  fedora core 7 or centos5 as a
> new base operating system.
>
> will there be any problems after the new installation to start my
> configuered virtual machines? i have the "disks" of the virtual
> machines on a seperate LVM partition. i would change /dev/sda1,
> /dev/sda2 and /dev/sda3 (new installation)
> but not the filesystems where the virtual machines are stored
> (/dev/sda5).
> has anyone experience with that or can tell me if i will get in
> trouble to start the VMs after the base operating system?
>
> my partion table at the moment:
>
> /dev/sda1   *           1          19      152586   83  Linux
> /dev/sda2              20        3843    30716280   83  Linux
> /dev/sda3            3844        4990     9213277+  82  Linux swap
>
> /dev/sda4               Extended
> /dev/sda5               Linux LVM
>
> thank you very much for help!
> greets,
> Abri
Are your images fully virtualized or paravirtualized? You may have to
play some kernel duplication games with paravirtualized.

Can you just do an OS update to CentOS 5 or FC 7, rather than having to
install from scratch? And can you back up your images somewhere for
safety's sake before you update?

Thank you for your answer!

The images are fully virtualized. 
An update is not possible, cause now i use FC6 i386, and i have to install "centos5 with 64 Bit support" (could this change from i386 to 64Bit support be also a problem for the images to start?)... i made already a backup of /etc/xen/* and for the images. do i need to attend something else?

Thank you!
greets,
Abri


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