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Problems getting openvz kernel to recognize elrepo driver [message #38162]

Wed, 25 November 2009 06:43

peter954
Messages: 4
Registered: April 2006

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Hello

I have installed an nvidia graphics driver from the elrepo.org site(yum --enablerepo elrepo install kmod-nvidia), and this driver works fine on the stock redhat kernel, but
not on the openvz kernel(X wont start, saying do I want to configure it myself).

I am using centos 5.4, with an Openvz kernel that I installed today using yum.

Should this work with openvz?, or is there another way to do this.

Thank you

Peter McGregor

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Re: Problems getting openvz kernel to recognize elrepo driver [message #38211 is a reply to message #38162]

Sat, 28 November 2009 01:42

peter954
Messages: 4
Registered: April 2006

Junior Member

Replying to my own message...

I managed to get the nvidia driver working by using the rpmforge repository and doing something similar to

yum install ovzkernel-devel
yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install dkms-nvidia
dkms --kernelsourcedir /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-164.2.1.el5.028stab066.7-i686/ build -m nvidia -v 1.0.9631-1.nodist.rf

dkms --kernelsourcedir /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-164.2.1.el5.028stab066.7-i686/ install -m nvidia -v 1.0.9631-1.nodist.rf

This isn't as good as using elrepo, but having read some recent forum messages on openvz, I suspect this capability may be coming when a new openvz kernel is rebased to the current redhat one.
Currently this is being QA'd?

peter

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