| Re: Switch to new red hat 5 kernel [message #11208 is a reply to message #11199] |
Thu, 15 March 2007 12:00   |
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Martin,
I guess Xen?
Thanks,
Kirill
> Hi Kirill,
>
> sorry for the off-topic but as I seen the news post from Redhat they
> offer virtualization with RHEL5, GUI for management and other nice
> features. Do you have any idea what virtualization product they use for
> this purpose?
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
> Kirill Korotaev wrote:
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>>There are different options:
>>- for new servers I would suggest to use RHEL5 distro/RHEL5-OVZ kernel
>>- for old servers you can still continue to use RHEL4-OVZ kernel,
>> as it will keep being updated for a long time yet.
>>- if you want some new features from RHEL5-OVZ kernel, but don't
>> want to upgrade host OS itself, it should not be a big problem
>> to install RHEL5-OVZ kernel only and update OVZ related tools.
>> (you may need to create a correct initrd, but no major obstacles here)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>Hi, I'm subscribed to the OpenVZ news/blog in my rss reader. Today I
>>>received a notice that the current stable kernel would be switched to the
>>>red hat 5 kernel. Specifically this was the comment:
>>>
>>>Our internal testing shows this RHEL5 kernel is pretty good, so it will
>>>replace our current stable branch real soon.
>>>
>>>
>>>How will this affect current RH 4 systems running OpenVZ. Will we simply be
>>>able to install the new kernel while keeping all of the rest of the system
>>>at the RH 4 level?
>>>
>>>Or will we need to install RH 5 and use the Openvz kernel based off of RH 5
>>>to keep our systems up to date with the stable kernel branch?
>>>
>>>
>>You don't need to install RH5 until you want some new specific features.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Kirill
>>
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