CentOS - Nov 2010 - upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

I am curious what is the best way to upgrade my dom0 and domUs to V.6  
(currently 5) when it releases. Any experience or docs on this?

Dave


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On 11/16/2010 12:36 AM, Dave Stevens wrote:
> I am curious what is the best way to upgrade my dom0 and domUs to V.6
> (currently 5) when it releases. Any experience or docs on this?
the Base CentOS-6 will have no Xen dom0 support, so you will almost 
certainly want to stick with centos-5 on the dom0, for the DomU's you 
can rebuild / upgrade using the regular process.

While centos-6 goes through beta and qa, its customary to make notes 
about potential upgrade paths. So keep a lookout for those closer to 
release time.

- KB

On 11/15/2010 07:36 PM, Dave Stevens wrote:
> I am curious what is the best way to upgrade my dom0 and domUs to V.6
> (currently 5) when it releases. Any experience or docs on this?
>
> Dave
I know that there is discussion on getting dom0 support into Fedora 15, 
with maybe 50/50 chance that it will happen. I suspect that will be the 
focus for the near future. Xen dom0 support is going into the mainline 
2.6.37 kernel, but there are still patches that are needed.

Once the bugs have been ironed out, I suspect that CentOS support will 
follow soon after. There will be experimental kernels before then, but I 
would not recommend them outside of test environments.

In short, stick to CentOS 5 in production for the foreseeable future.

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2010/11/16 Dave Stevens <geek at uniserve.com>:
> I am curious what is the best way to upgrade my dom0 and domUs to V.6
> (currently 5) when it releases. Any experience or docs on this?
Hi,

take a look at here:

http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Virtualization/chap-Virtualization-v2v-migration.html

and

http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Virtualization/convert-a-local-xen-guest.html

Best regards,

Morten