You can upgrade the Oracle Virtual Networking host driver on a host. When you upgrade, you change the OS from a kernel that has a base kernel version to an OS that has a final kernel version. For more information, see Base Kernels and Final Kernels.
In the following table, note that the base kernel and final kernel versions are different. This situation occurs if you upgrade from an OS kernel version without embedded host drivers to a kernel version that contains the embedded host drivers.
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Be aware that choosing to upgrade might change the way that your host drivers are installed. See Behavior of Unbundled and Embedded Host Drivers.
For procedures to upgrade kernels, see Upgrading the Kernel.