Dear peter Can i migrate directly from rhel 5.1 to 5.5? Is it possible through yum command ?
Thanks On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Peter Grandi <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Dear all I am using rhel 5.1 on my server and trying to > > install windows 2003 as virtual machine. I am using qemu but > > that working very slow. > > 'keqmu'? VirtualBox? > > > I decided to use kvm as accelerator but yum install kvm Give > > message that no package with name kvm . I even tried epel but > > no luck. Plaese guide me that can i use kvm on rhel 5.1 > > As previously remarked there is no such thing as RHEL 5.1; it is > just a conventional name given to a particular (and now obsolete) > set up of updates to RHEL5; in other words it is a marketing > device. A bit like MS-Windows service packs, which are usually > mostly compilation of patches at some particular point in time. > If you are using RHEL51 is a bit like saying "I haven't bothered > to update my system for a fairly long time". > > Fairly fullish KVM support has been backported to the 2.6.18 > kernel starting with that labeled as update 5.4, that is package > release 164: > > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv5-announce/2009-September/msg00000.html > > If you want you can install any kernel package release 164 or > later along your non-updated version 5.1 packages, that is perform > a very partial upgrade. > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list > -- http://linuxinterviews.blogspot.com
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