[Fedora-xen] Upgrading a Xen guest

[Olivier Renault]

John Swartzentruber wrote:
> I hope I am using correct terminology for this question. I'm a home user 
> who is using Xen in a small way, but want to ramp up my usage over time.
> 
> I have a Fedora 7 host server. On this computer, I installed two Fedora 
> 8 virtual servers using virt-install. What I can't find the answer to, 
> is how to upgrade these virtual computers from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9 when 
> Fedora 9 is released. On my physical server, I normally create an 
> installation DVD, then boot from that. Anaconda then takes care of 
> appropriately upgrading the system and generally does a very good job of 
> it.
> 
> So how will I do the equivalent for a virtual computer? I don't know how 
> to virtually put the virtual DVD in the virtual DVD drive and reboot the 
> virtual computer. I know I've read of ways to upgrade using Yum, which I 
> assume would work, but I'd prefer to upgrade using Anaconda because that 
> seems like a much safer approach. Because my two current virtual 
> computers are not used for much yet, I could start from scratch, but in 
> the future that isn't going to be the way I will want to handle the 
> upgrades.
> 
> Thanks for your help. I've read the FedoraProject.org wiki docs, but if 
> there are references I missed, please feel free to point me to them.
> 
Grab the fedora-release package from the F9 repository, install it on 
your VM and you can then simply run
# yum upgrade

You may want to double check if xen in F7 ( Dom0 ) / F9 ( domU ) are 
compatible.

Good luck,
Olivier