John Swartzentruber wrote:> I hope I am using correct terminology for this question. I''m a
home user
> who is using Xen in a small way, but want to ramp up my usage over time.
>
> I have a Fedora 7 host server. On this computer, I installed two Fedora
> 8 virtual servers using virt-install. What I can''t find the answer
to,
> is how to upgrade these virtual computers from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9 when
> Fedora 9 is released. On my physical server, I normally create an
> installation DVD, then boot from that. Anaconda then takes care of
> appropriately upgrading the system and generally does a very good job of
> it.
>
> So how will I do the equivalent for a virtual computer? I don''t
know how
> to virtually put the virtual DVD in the virtual DVD drive and reboot the
> virtual computer. I know I''ve read of ways to upgrade using Yum,
which I
> assume would work, but I''d prefer to upgrade using Anaconda
because that
> seems like a much safer approach. Because my two current virtual
> computers are not used for much yet, I could start from scratch, but in
> the future that isn''t going to be the way I will want to handle
the
> upgrades.
>
> Thanks for your help. I''ve read the FedoraProject.org wiki docs,
but if
> there are references I missed, please feel free to point me to them.
>
Grab the fedora-release package from the F9 repository, install it on
your VM and you can then simply run
# yum upgrade
You may want to double check if xen in F7 ( Dom0 ) / F9 ( domU ) are
compatible.
Good luck,
Olivier