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.
>
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