18 Jan
2022
18 Jan
'22
12:59 p.m.
Hi Andy,
The VM is noether running on macallan.
guest type reports PV.
On 18 Jan 2022, at 12:51, Andy Smith
<andy(a)bitfolk.com> wrote:
Hi David,
On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 09:33:59AM +0000, David Mills wrote:
I did a full in-place upgrade. Very seat of pants at times.
I did a 32 -> 64 bit in place upgrade several
months ago, all seems ok.
Out of interest was that just the kernel or did you carry on and
convert some/all of user land as well?
I’m currently
running kernel
5.10.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.46-4 (2021-08-03) x86_64 GNU/Linux
Does this look ok, or do I need to fix something else?
Sorry, I don't recall which VM we are talking about here but as it's
64-bit it's good. If it's running under PVH mode that's best. Check
that with:
$ cat /sys/hypervisor/guest_type
If it doesn't say PVH then you might like to try that out at some
point with:
xen shell> virtmode pvh
Should work as long as you are also using grub2 (/boot/grub/grub.cfg
exists). If for some reason it doesn't work you can revert back to
what you had with:
I thought I was running grub2, but my /boot only contains
default device.map menu.lst menu.lst~ menu.lst_backup_by_grub2_prerm
As I have rebooted since the cross-grade to 64bit, I know I have a boot loader somewhere,
I’m just now not sure where or what it is!
I’ll fix that before I play with the hypervisor settings.
xen shell> virtmode pv
All new VMs have been amd64/PVH for a bit over a year now.
cheers,
David