Author: David Mills Date: To: Andy Smith CC: users Subject: Re: [bitfolk] Remaining 32-bit PV guests will be switched to pvshim
on Tuesday 18 January
Hi Andy,
> On 18 Jan 2022, at 12:51, Andy Smith <andy@???> wrote:
>
> Hi David,
>
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 09:33:59AM +0000, David Mills wrote:
>> 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 did a full in-place upgrade. Very seat of pants at times.
>> 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
The VM is noether running on macallan.
guest type reports PV.
>
> 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
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.
>
>
