Re: backward compatibility: how far can it reasonably go?

[Brad Spencer <brad%anduin.eldar.org@localhost>]

Brad Spencer <brad%anduin.eldar.org@localhost> writes:

> You can also shut the DOMU down and present the disks to another DOMU in
> real time using "xl block-attach ...."  just use the "r" device if you
> use devices or the file otherwise.  I have done this for many years with
> PV DOMUs on many different Xen versions.  Once you have the disks
> presented, mostly I just "tar -xpf ...." the sets or my own build of
> userland on top of the old system.  Use postinstall after that usually
> once the system is booted up again with the newer kernel and newer
> userland.  You will need the etc sets for postinstall, but nothing has
> been scary there.


Messed that statement up...  use the Not "r" device, the block device
not the character device.


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