On 20 May 2015 18:37:54 CEST, ToddAndMargo <toddandma...@zoho.com> wrote:
>On 05/20/2015 04:58 AM, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
>> Hi ToddAndMargo!
>>
>>   On 2015.05.19 at 20:29:12 -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote next:
>>
>>> Despite Red Hat's assurance that EL6 will be supported
>>> till 2020, I am finding a lot of stuff that Red Hat
>>> is not willing to fix in EL6, but is going to or already has
>>> fixed in EL7.
>>>
>>> I had SL7 on one of my machines for a while and I currently
>>> have it in a VM on my main office machine.  I really like
>>> it and think it is really well done.
>>>
>>> Except that there is a problem that can not be worked around:
>>> no Wine 32.
>>
>> I believe we discussed it on this same list before and I showed you
>how
>> to run wine in SL7 (in container with Fedora, using either
>> systemd-nspawn or docker). Which is no-overhead solution, well
>basically
>> this is only overhead of having a directory with base Fedora system
>in
>> there.
>>
>> Specifically,
>> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scientific.user/7336
>>
>> (though by now you'd want to use fedora 21 repo for more up-to-date
>> wine)
>
>Docker would be a solution.  I am heavily into KVM and wanted
>to stay with it.  Also Docker has all kind of security issues
>and I wanted to avoid them, as I do penetration testing for
>PCI (credit card security).
>
>Does Docker do Coherence (seamless windows)?


Maybe this systemd article can give you some ideas?
< http://0pointer.net/blog/systemd-for-administrators-part-xxi.html>

Should be possible to kick off a systemd managed container with EL6 in a 
similar way too, from an EL7 host.

--
kind regards,

David Sommerseth

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