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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 Release
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 back end repository for Oracle VM Manager.
Oracle VM Manager no longer supports Oracle Database XE as a back end
repository and there is no way to migrate to the new MySQL database
back end supported in Oracle VM Release 3.3. If you are using
Oracle VM Release 3.x with a
supported Oracle Database such as Oracle Database SE or Oracle
Database EE, you should be aware that Oracle VM RRelease 3.3 no
longer supports these databases to store Oracle VM
configuration data. Instead, Oracle VM Release 3.3 uses its own
bundled MySQL database for this purpose. The upgrade process
includes a facility to help migrate Oracle VM configuration
data from a previously supported Oracle Database into the bundled
MySQL database.
The upgrade procedures discussed in this chapter refer to upgrades
between Oracle VM Release 3.1.1 or
3.2.x to Oracle VM
Release 3.3.x. Upgrades from earlier
versions of Oracle VM are not supported. 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. Also,
if you are running Oracle VM Release
3.0.x, you must first upgrade to
Release 3.2 before upgrading to Release 3.3.