Re: [opensuse] Installing 11.1 to Unused Partition From Running System?

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Randall R Schulz wrote:

On Tuesday 06 January 2009 14:15, Greg Freemyer wrote:

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On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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Hi,

I was wondering if it's feasible (if at all possible) to perform an openSUSE 11.1 installation to an unused partition on my existing 10.0 system while it (the 10.0 system) is running?

I've never tried, but if you're willing to experiment:

Get a VM running based on that empty partition. (Don't use a paravirtualized VM.)

Ha! I should have thought of that. Why not paravirtualized? Which is VMware?

I'm pretty sure VMware is NOT paravirtualized. But now that I think about it, paravirtualized might work too. The issue is drivers for your hardware. In a normal SUSE install, the kernel has all the drivers available as modules and does hardware autodetect each time you boot to figure out what hardware you have. So when you switch your platform from VM to real hardware the standard autodetect logic should work for you and cause the right drivers to kick in. Xen is paravirtualized, so if the SUSE Xen kernel knows that it is only going to run in a Paravirtualized VM, then it might only have the Paravirtualized VM drivers available to it and not do hardware autodetect. Thus when you reboot, you would not have any real hardware drivers to work with. :( I don't know anything beyond that, so I guess I'm just saying to be leery of using an install that would use the Xen kernel because it may or may not have real hardware drivers in it. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org