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) > > > > 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 _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users
