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In-Place Upgrade from RHEL 9 to RHEL 10 Using Leapp

July 24, 2025
Infrastructure, Tutorials
Rhel, Upgrade, Leapp, System-Administration, Linux

In-Place Upgrade from RHEL 9 to RHEL 10 Using Leapp #

This guide walks through the process of upgrading from RHEL 9 to RHEL 10 in place, without requiring a complete system reinstallation.

Current System Status #

Here’s what my lab’s test VM looks like:

[user@test ~]$ hostnamectl
 Static hostname: test.home.arpa
       Icon name: computer-vm
         Chassis: vm 🖴
      Machine ID: dec9d730df4f4e629ba20d02aed02f03
         Boot ID: 67e690ef7fbe45edb112a82dcdf72a97
  Virtualization: kvm
Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 (Plow)
     CPE OS Name: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos
          Kernel: Linux 5.14.0-570.28.1.el9_6.x86_64
    Architecture: x86-64
 Hardware Vendor: Red Hat
  Hardware Model: KVM
Firmware Version: 1.16.3-4.el9

We can see we’re currently running RHEL 9.6 on a KVM virtual machine.