[Users] Switch to new red hat 5 kernel

[Martin Dobrev]

Hi Kirill,

sorry for the off-topic but as I seen the news post from Redhat they 
offer virtualization with RHEL5, GUI for management and other nice 
features. Do you have any idea what virtualization product they use for 
this purpose?

Regards,
Martin

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
>
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