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Alan McKinnon schrieb: |
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> On Thursday 26 March 2009 20:41:38 Florian Philipp wrote: |
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>> Alan McKinnon schrieb: |
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>>> On Thursday 26 March 2009 19:47:05 Florian Philipp wrote: |
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>>>> Hi list! |
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>>>> A quick question: |
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>>>> If i install Gentoo on a system with a kernel version 2.6.9 (don't ask |
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>>>> ...), |
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>>> Wow. That kernel is what 4? 5? years old |
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>> Yep, I was surprised myself. It is a virtual machine (formerly SuSE). |
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>> Therefore I have no influence on the kernel. I'm wondering whether I'm |
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>> even safe when running such an antique system. |
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> What kind of vm? Considering the vintage, I'd guess an early vmware |
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> The 2.6.9 machine - is that the host or guest? |
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It's OpenVZ, therefore guest and host share one kernel. |
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> About a year ago a company I worked for was consulted to maintain a hospital |
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> admin system running on SLES of about that era in a VM. We told them to |
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> upgrade or find somebody else. They went off on their merry way to find |
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> somebody else... |
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I'll ask them as soon as I know more about how Gentoo works on this. |
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