Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 11 - VIRTUALIZATION Manual page 112

8.5.3 Recovering from a Catastrophic Failure
In the event of a catastrophic failure caused by the driver pack, you can safely remove
the driver pack and return to your previous system configuration.
1 Shut down the virtual machine and reboot in safe mode.
2 Uninstall the driver pack (see
8.5.4 Avoiding Problems with the Drivers
To avoid problems and potential failure of the device drivers in the driver pack, you
should avoid the following actions:
• Using the Device Manager to manage (update, disable, uninstall, etc.) the device
drivers in the driver pack.
• Deleting driver files manually. Always use the uninstall utility (see
"Uninstalling the Driver Pack"
• Uninstalling the driver pack with the installation CD attached to the virtual machine.
• Canceling the installation when you see security alert that indicates that the Bus
driver has not been properly signed. Click Yes to continue the installation.
• Upgrading the Linux
driver pack at the same time.
• Installing or uninstalling the driver pack by any other process than what is docu-
mented in this guide (see
(page 95) and
102 Virtualization with Xen
(page 100)).
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kernel of the virtual machine host without upgrading the
Section 8.5.1, "Uninstalling the Driver Pack"
Section 8.5.1, "Uninstalling the Driver Pack"
(page 100)).
Section 8.5, "SUSE Drivers for Windows on Xen"
Section 8.5.1,
(page 100)).