Xen users - Nov 2009 - Debian Etch dom0 | Xen upgrade to 3.4.2 from source

Hi list,

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. I mean, I would
like to upgrade but if something fails, switch it back to 3.0.3 again.

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.

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.


Any help will be very appreciated.


Thanks in advance

Chris


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Hi Chris,

Am Dienstag, den 24.11.2009, 20:48 -0300 schrieb Christian
Gonzalez:
> Hi list,
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 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?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Any help will be very appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> 
> Chris

hth,

Thomas
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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@thohal.de> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> Am Dienstag, den 24.11.2009, 20:48 -0300 schrieb Christian Gonzalez:
> > Hi list,
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > 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?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Any help will be very appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> >
> > Chris
>
>
> hth,
>
> Thomas
> > _______________________________________________
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> > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
>
>

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On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Christian Gonzalez <zulsolar@gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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.

Here''s what I did that might be relevant to you: I''m using
RHEL 5.4,
which comes with Xen 3.1.x. When I upgraded some dom0s, I use binary
packages (rpm) from Gitco. Only one version of Xen is installed on the
dom0, but since I use binary package I can easily upgrade or downgrade
as necessary.

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When I upgrade my debian lenny from 3.2.1 to 3.4.2 qemu start using
99% CPU. Be care.

2009/12/9, Fajar A. Nugraha <fajar@fajar.net>:
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Christian Gonzalez
<zulsolar@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> 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.
>
>
> Here''s what I did that might be relevant to you: I''m
using RHEL 5.4,
> which comes with Xen 3.1.x. When I upgraded some dom0s, I use binary
> packages (rpm) from Gitco. Only one version of Xen is installed on the
> dom0, but since I use binary package I can easily upgrade or downgrade
> as necessary.
>
> --
> Fajar
>
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