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 <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 8:31 PM, =JeffH <<a href="mailto:Jeff.Hodges@kingsmountain.com">Jeff.Hodges@kingsmountain.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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 -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>