[Users] Switch to new red hat 5 kernel

[Romeo Theriault]

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