A quick post that I (successfully) upgraded my Fedora 12 guest under KVM using the preupgrade script. Just yum install preupgrade and enter preupgrade “Fedora 13 (Goddard)”. After a download of 1217 packages (mileage may vary), it reboots to complete the upgrade process. That part failed for me, although I was able to quickly diagnose the problem inside of /boot/grub/menu.lst … there was a missing space between the ks.cfg and stage2 variable. Another re-boot and the upgrade process completed painlessly.
Of noteworthy, WordPress with MySQL upgraded with no apparent issue and the external MailScanner RPM package is running unmodified. That’s a relief.
One significant change for me was the placement of custom upstart files. I had my role-playing game daemon simply defined before as /etc/event.d/rpgd, however, it now needs to be moved into /etc/init as rpgd.conf. Go figure, but a simple mv and initctl start rpgd command later and it was up and running.
I suspected upgrading a minimal guest instance with few outside modifications would be fairly straightforward. I do not believe I will go this route on the workstation and laptop, instead I will stick to the practice of backup and re-install for those bare metal needs. Stay tuned.
