[Announce] New kernel release: RHEL6 2.6.32 042test009.2

Kir Kolyshkin kir at openvz.org
Fri Apr 22 08:19:38 EDT 2011


OpenVZ project has released a new RHEL6 based
kernel. Read below for more information. Please
note that this is an unstable kernel.


Changes
=======
* Rebase onto 2.6.32-71.24.1.el6 update (security, bug fixes)
* Added kernel-firmware package
* Fixed RPM dependencies to install on RHEL/CentOS 5
* NFSv4 client support in CT
* Persistent TUN/TAP support in CT
* VSwap improvements
* Optimizations in UBC
* Reworked SunRPC virtualization
* Fixes in CPT, cpulimit, bridges


Compatibility
=============
* No new issues


Download
========
http://wiki.openvz.org/Download/kernel/rhel6/042test009.2

Note that in order to run this kernel you need either RHEL6
(or its clone like CentOS 6 or Scientific Linux 6 [1])
or Fedora 12 or more distribution installed.

In order to use this kernel branch yum repository,
you need to download new openvz.repo file [2] and set
enable=1 in section named [openvz-kernel-rhel6].

In case you are not using yum, kernels can be downloaded
from [3] or [4] and installed directly by rpm. For non-rpm
based systems, we provide the patch and the set of configs
that are available from the same download pages.


Bug reporting
=============
Use http://bugzilla.openvz.org/ to report any bugs found.


Other sources of info on updates
================================
See http://wiki.openvz.org/News to view all the news
(including updates) online. There you can also find
RSS/Atom feed links.


Regards,
      OpenVZ team.


[1] http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/
[2] http://download.openvz.org/openvz.repo
[3] http://wiki.openvz.org/Download/kernel/rhel6
[4] http://download.openvz.org/kernel/branches/rhel6-2.6.32/


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