| Re: Switch to new red hat 5 kernel [message #11214 is a reply to message #11193] |
Thu, 15 March 2007 13:07  |
Romeo Theriault
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Registered: December 2006
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On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 13:04 +0300, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
> 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)
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> > 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
>
Thanks for the info. Makes me breath a little easier :)
Romeo
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