Has anyone done a Gentoo Xen Dom0/DomU update?

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Published on 2009-05-29T18:08:43Z Indexed on 2010/03/27 23:03 UTC
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I am running a couple of xen 3.1.1 systems (production, test/dev) with gentoo Dom0 and DomU. With plans to update to 3.3 soon, I am wondering if anyone has any successes or failures they'd like to share.

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