Bart Schaefer wrote: > On 3/25/07, Preston Crawford <me at prestoncrawford.com> wrote: >> I was talking about maybe going to >> SATA and using that as an excuse to do a smooth upgrade (install to the >> SATA drive and keep my old install on the IDE drives and slowly move >> config and files over) and she said she liked it the way it was. > > I typically buy a new drive, install the newer OS to that, and set up > a vmware instance pointed at the raw disks with the old install on it, > so I can boot up the old system at the same time as the new one if > necessary. Often I get a newer/faster CPU at the same time, so the > old system still works about as well as it ever did even under > virtualization (sometimes it even gets faster). > > I'm looking forward to finding out whether Xen makes this possible in > CentOS 5 without VMware. It does. You might need a xenified kernel, but those are possible. You will need real RAM. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list