[Users] OpenVZ Kernel

Matt matt.mailinglists at gmail.com
Mon Jul 28 14:36:55 PDT 2014


I see:

[root]# rpm -qa |grep kern
kernel-2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.x86_64
vzkernel-2.6.32-042stab088.4.x86_64
vzkernel-2.6.32-042stab090.3.x86_64
vzkernel-2.6.32-042stab092.1.x86_64
vzkernel-2.6.32-042stab092.3.x86_64
dracut-kernel-004-336.el6_5.2.noarch
kernel-2.6.32-431.5.1.el6.x86_64
kernel-2.6.32-431.17.1.el6.x86_64
kernel-2.6.32-431.20.3.el6.x86_64
vzkernel-2.6.32-042stab092.2.x86_64
kernel-firmware-2.6.32-431.20.5.el6.noarch
kernel-2.6.32-431.20.5.el6.x86_64

So would it be safe to do.

yum erase kernel

???




On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Scott Dowdle <dowdle at montanalinux.org> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> I have OpenVZ installed on CentOS 6.x following this guide.
>>
>> https://openvz.org/Quick_Installation_CentOS_6
>>
>> Everytime CentOS releases a new kernel it replaces the OpenVZ kernel
>> as first boot option.  Is there anyway around this other then editing
>> the boot order manually after running yum update?
>
> What I've done is to just remove the stock CentOS kernel because what isn't installed doesn't get updated.  You could also make it an exclude in the /etc/yum.conf if desired.
>
> TYL,
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