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I'm dealing with an old Xen 3 server, and badly need to update it and all the vm's on it to more contemporary operating systems. So far, so good! Can the Xen server on CentOS 5 para-virtualized CentOS 6? And if not, I'm having real trouble getting a live cd or installation media to boot in full virtualization to do the update of the guests. I'd normally start by updating the Xen

...tten full virtualization of CentOS 6 on an SL 5 Xen server by using the "virt-install" command and avoiding manual editing of /etc/xen/ config files. I've also been reminded, forcibly, of why I hated the "/etc/xen" directory. The lack of distinction between a "/etc/xen/myserfer", the example files there, and any other unqualified files there as valid configation files means making safe backups of the files such as "myserver.hvm" or "myserver.old" quite painful. I wound up putting /etc/xen/ under git source control, just for tracking changes.