08-20-2020, 11:34 PM
@deanhills
Thank you for the information !!
I was doing some checks and found that VPS 18 and VPS 9 still using seabios version 0.5.1 .. that is like ancient !! I mean even ubuntu 14.04 lts repo has version 1.7.4
this seabios is the bios that gets loaded when a VPS loads up ( think of this as bios of the virtual pc ).
what this means is the KVM installs are probably horribly back dated and it seems their policy is 'dont touch until it breaks apart'
In terms of latest hardware and software support, security and stability, updating the qemu and seabios binary etc are very very important. So I have no idea why it has been kept back. It is not like old system image wont boot on a newer updated qemu kvm .. no idea really..
But I hope that wont be a problem for what I want to do.. lets hope for the best..
Thank you for the information !!
I was doing some checks and found that VPS 18 and VPS 9 still using seabios version 0.5.1 .. that is like ancient !! I mean even ubuntu 14.04 lts repo has version 1.7.4
this seabios is the bios that gets loaded when a VPS loads up ( think of this as bios of the virtual pc ).
what this means is the KVM installs are probably horribly back dated and it seems their policy is 'dont touch until it breaks apart'
In terms of latest hardware and software support, security and stability, updating the qemu and seabios binary etc are very very important. So I have no idea why it has been kept back. It is not like old system image wont boot on a newer updated qemu kvm .. no idea really..
But I hope that wont be a problem for what I want to do.. lets hope for the best..
Sincere Thanks to VirMach for my VPS9. Also many thanks to Shadow Hosting and cubedata for the experiences I had with their VPSs.