[Users] Opinions and experience of Openvz

[Pablo Silva]

Thanks Keith, my question was about kernel update in centos 6.x ...

-Pablo


On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Keith Keller <
kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:

> On 2014-07-17, Pablo Silva <psilvao at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Colleagues, I would like to know your experience using openvz, my
> boss
> > tells me that if we use openvz, when you upgrade from Centos 6.x, we lose
> > the openvz kernel and leave offline multiple virtual machines. Exists
> this
> > risk?, As you have faced, or is a valid opinion but that has not happened
> > in practice?
>
> When you upgrade from CentOS 6.x to what?  7.x?  6.x to 6.x+1?
>
> If you update the CentOS kernel package there is a slight risk that you
> will mess up your grub.conf file and boot that kernel by accident.  The
> easy solution is to exclude kernel-* in your yum configuration, so that
> yum will never update the package.  (And FWIW I haven't seen this issue
> in practice.)
>
> --keith
>
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