Justin W wrote:
Well, at any means, I need to upgrade (I'll put off deciding whether
I'm going to go with CentOS or stick with Fedora for another day). I
could use some help getting ready for the move.
I've done upgrades before, but they've always been kind of long and I
don't like going without my email server for that long. I'm now
thinking that I could install FC6 to a larger hard drive that I have
acquired and use FC6's Xen capabilities to host the FC4 (from my other
HD) while I'm in the process of upgrading. I don't know much about Xen
though.
1) Is kernel-xenU the correct kernel I need, or do I have to try to
compile one myself?
2) Will Xen run FC4 from the hard drive it's already on, or does it
want it as a file in the file system? (FC4 is under LVM if that makes
a difference)
3) Will there be any major sticklers I need to worry about when FC4
boots as a guest rather than on its own? Will network connections will
be broken in any way? Will I have to worry about my swap partitions
(as I know I don't have enough ram to run two systems at once without
using swap)?
4) Can somebody help me find a correct xen configuration that will
allow my FC4 system to run as it was (i.e. same IP address, etc). I'll
read up on some of the xen manuals, using
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/01/26/xen.html a
reference to see what I need to do.
I knew I was forgetting one:
5) How does the boot up process work? How do I have to reference the
kernel: as if it were chrooted so just /boot/kernel... or is it
/path/to/fc4/root/boot/kernel...?
After I have [ideally] both systems running, I'll slowly move services
from one system to the other until I have everything ported and
reconfigured (as FC4 was my first server setup, so therefore is pretty
messy and needs to be reworked from the ground up).
If anybody wants anything more specific, I'll be happy to give you the
information you need.
Thanks,
Justin W
