Re: [Xen-users] Debian Etch dom0 | Xen upgrade to 3.4.2 from source

[Christian Gonzalez <zulsolar@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Thomas,

I'm still going on with Etch as I have read that there were some issues when upgrading from Etch to Lenny. Maybe those issues are very rare/solved now but I'm afraid that if I got problems while upgrading I will not have enough time to fix it and the downtime will be long. It's not a mission critical server, in fact, it just a home webserver/mailserver but it took me a long time to build it as my free time is very spare and short.

Unfortunately I'm not really very fun of Debian, although I have been using it as dom0 for almost a year without any issues so I can not complain about it. But I'm more comfortable running Slackware, it's my favorite distro. So, I decided that instead of upgrading from v3.0.3 to v3.4.x ( I read that could be very tricky to run both versions on the same machine as I wanted at first) I'll try to build a new dom0 with Slackware64. Happily I'm very close to get it.

Thanks and regards.

Chris

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Thomas Halinka <lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Chris,

Am Dienstag, den 24.11.2009, 20:48 -0300 schrieb Christian Gonzalez:

> Hi list,
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> I'm running a Debian Etch dom0, using Xen 3.0.3. I have several domu's
> running on top of it, too. I would like to know if it is possible to
> upgrade to v3.4.2 using 2.6.18 kernel without breaking too much.

why not? :-)

> I mean, I would like to upgrade but if something fails, switch it back
> to 3.0.3 again.
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> I found several guides but almost all of them seems to upgrade Etch to
> Lenny and then Xen to v3.4. I would like to keep Etch and just upgrade
> Xen.
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> I have downloaded linux-2.6.18-xen-3.4.2.tar.gz and xen-3.4.2.tar.gz
> from Xen site but I'm no quite sure about the steps involved to do
> what I want.

I would suggest to build your own XEN-Debian-Packages and try them....

Im Running Lenny with 3.4 without any Probs - give it a try....

But why do you stay with etch?

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> Any help will be very appreciated.
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> Thanks in advance
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> Chris

hth,

Thomas

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