From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roberto Nunnari Subject: Re: upgrade question Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 16:23:07 +0200 Message-ID: <5550BB4B.2090509@nunnari.net> References: <55467069.9040807@nunnari.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from posta.ti-edu.ch ([195.176.176.171]:44518 "EHLO ti-edu.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751933AbbEKOW0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 May 2015 10:22:26 -0400 Received: from [195.176.38.175] (account roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch [195.176.38.175] verified) by ti-edu.ch (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 6.0.11) with ESMTPSA id 108104019 for kvm@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 11 May 2015 16:22:22 +0200 In-Reply-To: <55467069.9040807@nunnari.net> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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: > Please ignore previous message, as it was sent from an address not > subscribed to the list. > > > 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 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html