Re: upgrade question

[Roberto Nunnari <robi@nunnari.net>]

Hello.

Anybody on this, please? Especially, it's better to upgrade first the
host or first the guest?

Thank you and best regards.
Robi



Il 03.05.2015 21:00, Roberto Nunnari ha scritto:
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> Hello.
> 
> I'm running a intel x86_64 host with kvm. There are two guests, a linux
> x86_64 guest and a windows xp guest.
> This has been running many years perfectly. Now it's time to upgrade all
> the software on both the host and linux guest as the OS reached EOL.
> 
> 
> At present:
> host:
> # cat /etc/issue
> Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS \n \l
> # uname -rms
> Linux 2.6.32-74-server x86_64
> # dpkg -l | grep qemu-kvm
> ii  qemu-kvm  0.12.3+noroms-0ubuntu9.26
> 
> guest:
> # cat /etc/issue
> Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS \n \l
> # uname -rms
> Linux 2.6.32-74-server x86_64
> 
> To put it short, I'd like to upgrade to ubuntu 12.04 and after that,
> maybe also to 14.04.
> 
> I'd like advice from the experts on how to perform the upgrade of the
> KVM guest and hosts, of course after taking a full backup..
> 
> - what should be upgraded first? host or guest?
> - are there any caveats?
> 
> Any hints or advices are welcome.
> 
> Thank you and best regards.
> Robi
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