My major goal these day is “updating my CV” – but because of how my CV is built (in a very special XML dialect with a very special authoring and publishing software), I usually want to run it in a rather up-to-date OS environment – in order to be able to replace outdated and non-working pieces, therefore:
- OS update of the VM (ie. openSUSE – actually I do consider replacing it by SLES)
- updating the CV authoring software
- updating my CV
Installing resp. upgrading openSUSE Linux (for now simply “installing“):
- it does look lean and slick to install openSUSE Linux from the “Network” DVD image (“downloads the installation system and all packages from online repositories“), but it takes hours to install over the network, even if that is rather fast
- downloading the “complete DVD” does not take hours, and installing from the “complete DVD” is far faster than installing over the network
- this time I am installing over the network, but in the future I am going to try the “complete DVD” approach
Update 2014-07-16: This upgrade (12.3->13.1) was also a migration x86->x64, also concerning VirtualBox a little – but .
It looks, as if this was my smoothest migration in years.
- Virtual Desktops got preserved
- the home banking Java software works w/o changes
- Emacs still works
- …