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jemz
jemz

Reputation: 5133

how to change my vm instance operating system

I would like to change the operating system of my vm instance in google cloud computing engine, my current is ubuntu 16.10 and I would like to change to 16.04 LTS. what are the steps so that I will totally erase the ubuntu 16.10 and replace it to 16.04.

Thank you in advance.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 14816

Answers (3)

Gerben
Gerben

Reputation: 21

In the google cloud web gui:

  1. stop the VM
  2. click on the VM
  3. edit
    • Storage
      • Boot disk
        • detach boot disk
        • add new disk
          • choose OS
  4. save
  5. start VM

You can then delete the old boot disk.

Upvotes: 2

Thrahir
Thrahir

Reputation: 98

If you want to preserve your data, follow those steps:

1: Snapshot from disk.
2: delete your instance.
3: create a new instance with your desired version.
4: add your old disk to your new instance.

Then move your files from the attached disk to the system disk.

Upvotes: 1

Robert Lacok
Robert Lacok

Reputation: 4324

The easiest is to delete the VM completely, then re-create it and select a boot disc with Ubuntu 16.04. You can do it very easily from Console.

Upvotes: 6

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