Dear all I installed rhel 5.5. But installing kvm still failed. root# yum install kvm (kvm package not present,) I went thougn rhn and found that my base channel is ' Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 for 32-bit x86)'But kvm is not present there what should i do now. By cpu architecture info is more /proc/cpuinfo --------------------------------------------- flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 lahf_lm -----------------------------------------
Thanks On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 9:39 AM, vishesh kumar <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > -- http://linuxinterviews.blogspot.com
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