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I am dual booting window7 and suse 12.1 on same hard-drive. Can I upgrade to 12.2 and keep my files and Virtual Machines created in VirtualBox. And not wipe out ...
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- 10-05-2012 #1Just Joined!
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Updateing openSuSE 12.1 to 12.2
I am dual booting window7 and suse 12.1 on same hard-drive. Can I upgrade to 12.2 and keep my files and Virtual Machines created in VirtualBox. And not wipe out my Windows partition
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Updating openSUSE from 12.1 to 12.2
I did this today using Tumbleweed. It took quite a while (about 2 hours using a fast college wired network connection). I haven't tested everything. My partition structure appears intact (/,/windows, /home, /srv /opt).
I recommend backing up first, just in case!
Good luck!
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I've never done an upgrade in a VM. But I don't see why you shouldn't be able to do so.
Of course, a backup via VM snapshot would be prudent.Jay
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Did I misunderstand the original post? I thought it was about updating bare metal without data loss.
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