Emergency help needed upgrading obsolete 1.8

[sjmof]

I am in a big mess right now and I realize I should have done this sooner, but I need to upgrade 1.8 to a higher version, but I cannot get the apt sources to update to 1.9, then to 2.0 (and above).

Is there any way to accomplish this? I have a machine failing and I am sure that an upgrade would fix my issues, but I currently have no way to do it.

Thanks,
joe

 

[mir]

This is not possible anymore since pve-1.x is based on Debian Squeeze which is no longer supported. https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

 

[tom]

This is not possible anymore since pve-1.x is based on Debian Squeeze which is no longer supported. https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

1.x is based on Lenny and not upgrade-able.

But as long as you have access to the virtual hard disk files you just have to:

for qemu/VM:

- copy these files to a backup location
- copy your VM config
- reinstall latest Proxmox VE 4.2 and create manually new config files, according to your old config

 

[BuffaloBrent]

Much the same as what tom had mentioned - instead of upgrading, could you just make backups of all of the VMs on an external drive, install the new version from scratch, and then restore the backups? That's what I did to go from v3 to v4 MUCH easier. You have to absolutely make sure that the backups are complete and there was no errors along the way.

I am curious on what is failing with it currently.