On Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 07:14:39PM +0000, woodcab wrote: > Hello, > > Still new to Linux and had a few questions regarding upgrading to 4.1.0 > > I'm using virt-manager 2.2.1 on Ubuntu MATE 20.4. There is an > upgrade available for Ubuntu Mate to MATE 20.4.1. I am told that > this is a minor upgrade and that it can be done with my files in > place. I have backed up my files and VMs along with the .xml > files. My question is how to best proceed with that upgrade? If > virt-manager is upgraded to 4.1.0 in the process, will my VMs that > were setup in 2.2.1 still work in 4.1.0? Or should I upgrade > virt-manager to an intermediate version before going to 4.1.0? I don't think I've ever had to worry about existing VMs when upgrading libvirt or virt-manager (BTW I think *libvirt* is more relevant to this since that's what is actually managing the VMs). I have upgraded libvirt many times on my system that runs VMs even while the VMs were running. Since you've done the right thing by backing up the existing VMs and *.xml files, you should be good even in the unlikely case that anything goes wrong during the upgrade, so I guess go for it! Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com nbdkit - Flexible, fast NBD server with plugins https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/nbdkit
