[kwlug-disc] Upgrading from 12.04 to 14.04

[unsolicited]

I thought you now had a headless tower in the basement for all this? 
RDP'ing to the vm from the laptop at need?

What ... no external USB on your OpenWRT and running KVM on it? Where's 
your sense of challenge, man!

Mind you ... worth holding a spare vm in the cloud? Presumably there's 
an ability to clone off a snapshot in the cloud, and test run the 
upgrade there. Presumably only a DNS change when you're ready to go 
live? Making the old the new spare vm? And leaving a regression path if 
something goes sour but doesn't reveal itself for a couple of days?


On 14-08-12 01:30 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 1:21 PM, unsolicited <unsolicited at swiz.ca> wrote:
>
>> However ... given you are now a vbox/kvm guru, take a snapshot and try?
>>
>
> No can do.
>
> The laptop does not have VT support (greyed out in the BIOS), and hence it
> resorts to qemu and things are painfully slow. Installing a default Ubuntu
> server 32bit took 3 to 4 hours.
>
> The same takes only 30 minutes or so on a server that has VT support and
> hence KVM.
>
> Not to mention the slow copying of 100 GB for the snapshot.
>
> I'd rather brave the 14.04.1 upgrade and not go through the pain of the
> above ...
>
>
>
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