Re: [CentOS] Virtualising legacy CentOS 4.x servers

2014-05-15 Thread Peter
CentOS 4 should virtualize just fine under Xen. You will need to install the kernel-xenU package if you want to run it as a PV domain (recommended). At the time I think that Xen was RedHat's virt of choice. While I haven't tested C4 explicitly of late, it should run just fine under Xen4Centos in

Re: [CentOS] Virtualising legacy CentOS 4.x servers

2014-05-15 Thread SilverTip257
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Digimer wrote: > I've virtualized EL4 on KVM on EL6 without issue. > > digimer > I've had to do the same for one system as well. In my case we're slowly trying to kill (migrate) off that machine, but the physical-to-virtual transition bought us some time. ( It wa

Re: [CentOS] Virtualising legacy CentOS 4.x servers

2014-05-14 Thread Simon Banton
At 12:58 -0500 14/5/14, Les Mikesell wrote: >If you are running physical machines now, you don't have that >ability anyway... True, but that's a reason to try and migrate to a better environment which would allow it. >Does it have to be hosted? You could run under KVM/Virtualbox/Vmware, >etc.

Re: [CentOS] Virtualising legacy CentOS 4.x servers

2014-05-14 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Simon Banton wrote: > > I look after a number of CentOS 4.x servers running legacy > applications that depend on ancient versions of various things (such > as MySQL 3.x) and which can't be upgraded without non-trivial > development effort. > > I've been considerin

Re: [CentOS] Virtualising legacy CentOS 4.x servers

2014-05-14 Thread Digimer
I've virtualized EL4 on KVM on EL6 without issue. digimer On 14/05/14 01:39 PM, Simon Banton wrote: > Dear all, > > I look after a number of CentOS 4.x servers running legacy > applications that depend on ancient versions of various things (such > as MySQL 3.x) and which can't be upgraded without

[CentOS] Virtualising legacy CentOS 4.x servers

2014-05-14 Thread Simon Banton
Dear all, I look after a number of CentOS 4.x servers running legacy applications that depend on ancient versions of various things (such as MySQL 3.x) and which can't be upgraded without non-trivial development effort. I've been considering virtualising them and as a test have been trialling