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Oracle VM Release 3.x
is not backwardly
compatible with Oracle VM Release 2.x
.
If you are using Oracle VM Release 2.x
you cannot upgrade to Release 3.x
. You
must reinstall your Oracle VM Servers and Oracle VM Manager. You can, however, reuse
your virtual machine templates from Oracle VM Release
2.x
by importing them into Oracle VM
3.x
.
For information on repository migration from Oracle VM Release 2 to Oracle VM Release 3, see the My Oracle Support website at: https://support.oracle.com/oip/faces/secure/km/DocumentDisplay.jspx?id=1366216.1
There is no provision for upgrading releases where an Oracle Database XE has been used as a backend repository for Oracle VM Manager. Oracle VM Manager no longer supports Oracle Database XE as a backend repository and there is no way to migrate to the new MySQL database backend supported in Oracle VM 3.2. If you are willing to migrate your Oracle Database XE to a supported Oracle Database such as Oracle Database SE or Oracle Database EE, you will be able to perform an upgrade using the Custom installation process.
The upgrade procedures discussed in this chapter refer to upgrades
between Oracle VM 3.x
releases, for
example, upgrading from Oracle VM Release 3.0.1 to 3.0.3, or from
Release 3.0.3 to 3.1.1 This chapter outlines the upgrade process for
all the components of Oracle VM when upgrading to minimize down
time and make sure the upgrade process is performed in the correct
order.
Generally, there is no need to perform incremental upgrades
between releases; that is, you can skip releases as long as you
upgrade from Oracle VM 3.x
to
3.x
. For example, you can upgrade
from Release 3.0.2 to 3.1.1. The exception to this is if you are
running Oracle VM Release 3.0.1, where you must first upgrade
to Release 3.0.2 or 3.0.3 before upgrading to Release 3.2. Upgrades
from Release 3.0.3 to Release 3.2 and from Release 3.1.1 to
Release 3.2 have been successfully tested and are fully supported.