[Users] OpenVZ legacy on Skylake CPU / 2.6 EOL

[Volker Janzen]

Hi,

> The upstream 2.6.32 will be EOL'ed but OpenVZ Legacy uses RHEL's
> 2.6.32 kernel that has a large number of patches provided by Red Hat
> with additional features and drivers backported from a number of newer
> kernels.  Red Hat provides a refresh every 6 months with their minor
> version releases (currently on RHEL 6.7 with 6.8 coming out RSN).
> Here's the RHEL6 history thus far:

okay, so Red Hat will keep an eye on the 2.6.32er kernel series it uses 
and might provides additional patches, improvements etc. without the 
upstream kernel. This sounds good to me and it is indeed logical, if the 
RHEL 6 phases out in 2020. There will be further hardware generations 
until that date.

> I'm fairly ignorant of the specifics but eyeballing those two it
> appears RHEL 6.7 supports all E3-12XX V5 CPUs.

My only problem with this list is that there seem to be only server CPUs 
included. I cannot find i5 or i7 series processors for desktop. But as 
of Haswell desktop CPUs are supported, the Skylake desktop CPUs might be 
supported, too. Need to check this if I need to switch my current setup 
from Haswell to Skylake (maybe I can postpone this until VZ7 is ready 
for my needs).

> Does that answer the questions you had?

Yes, thanks.


Regards,
    Volker