migration to 64bit ?

[Alex Katebi]

Hi,

This is how I upgrade. It is a bit different than your way. I put my home
directory on a separate disk partition. Now I can upgrade to the latest
Ubuntu release 64 etc. After install I edit the /etc/fstab and point to my
real home dir.

For virtualization don't bother with all the easy to use tools. The don't
even work and their documentation is crapy. Just go to the KVM home site and
download the latest code and build and install it. Use KVM without the
redhat or ubuntu tools. Also install the KVM from apt one time so you can
get the boot start up script for kvm, then apt remove the kvm. This will do
the kernel module auto loading for kvm at boot time. Otherwise your guest
will do paravirtualization which is very slow. The KVM documentation is not
perfect but I can help you with that.

Thanks,
-Alex

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 8:31 PM, =JeffH <Jeff.Hodges at kingsmountain.com>wrote:

> I've been reading through the various 64bit threads with interest. I'm on a
> core2duo machine, presently running 32bit.
>
> My overall question is what are the (detailed) steps would one take to
> migrate
> a system from, say, 32bit Ubuntu 8.04 LTS ("Hardy Heron") to 64bit Hardy?
>
> My video card is nVidia, and it appears they have a 64bit linux driver. As
> threads here have indicated, there is now 64bit support for Flash, Java,
> etc.
> So those main items are apparently addressed.
>
> One item that hasn't really been discussed is virtual machines: I presently
> use vmware v6 to run at least one guest OS (winXP), and sometimes linux
> VMs.
> In looking at VMware's site, it seems that they've had 64bit support for a
> while now, and one can run 32bit guest OS's on 64bit host OS's, so that
> appears to be just a matter of downloading the x86_64 installer, yes?
>
> So, if one has a functional 32bit Hardy system, what are the machinations
> to
> make it become 64bit?
>
> thanks,
>
> =JeffH
>
>
>
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