On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 01:22 +0200, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > > The problem with the CentOS kernel is that it's really old and it would > > require major surgery in order to get any sort of recent Linux-VServer > > version on there. I've been playing with the idea of providing more > > recent, vanilla kernel RPMs too, but nothing has come out of that yet, > > mostly because the userspace matches the old kernel. So in order to get a > > recent kernel working nicely, you'd probably need to update at least udev > > and mkinitrd. > > If you take these from FC6, you need several more just because of the > dependencies of the FC6-RPMS. But I didn't try it (read: rebuilding them > and `rpm -i --nodeps` them) since I can't risk it ATM. > > Another option/possibility could be to use CentOS-5 with a (very > probably heavily patched) 2.6.18 kernel which is now in beta since RHEL5 > has been annouced last week or so. So at least the user-space should be > much more recent. >
Thanx for the heads up Bernd. I dind't realise CentOS 5 was so close. I'm downloading the beta now. I think any efforts to getting linux-vservers and centos working for me at the moment would be better off spent on the latest version, as I dont have any current centos deployments - but looking at setting up at least 3 in the near future. I'll need to do at least one next week - but I might put centos 4.4 on it, with a couple of VMWare machines, until I get the linux vm's working under linux-vserver. I just found out they are looking at 13 April for a CentOS-5 release - so time permitting I might try to get a kernel for that. Very exciting (fingers crossed) Matt. _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [email protected] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
