I'm running CentOS 5.3 on the host and all guests now. The patched
yum is working fine and I haven't had any stability issues at all.
John
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:56 AM, John A. Sullivan III
<jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 07:39 -0700, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
>> Anyone (John?) running CentOS 5 as the host distribution?
>>
>> If so have any of you updated to CentOS 5.3?
>>
>> And ... John have you finished your tests on the patched yum? Results?
>> Good, bad or ugly? :-)
>>
>>
>> \\||/
>> Rod
> So far, it is working fine. Guest installations of both CentOS 5.3 and
> Ubuntu 8.0.4 all ran fine. vyum from the host and yum from the guest
> appear to be running fine. Cloning is fine. We are having a bit of an
> issue with hashify but I do not believe this is at all related to yum.
>
> We did hit a problem with processes spinning out of control and not
> being able to be killed without a hard boot of the host. Apparently
> this is not an issue with yum or CentOS but rather the 2.6.28 kernel we
> are running and it is supposedly fixed in 2.6.29 so we are eagerly
> awaiting the final patch from vserver. There were compelling reasons
> for us to use ext4 and we felt a little funny relying on the backport
> into 2.6.18 which shipped with 5.3. We normally don't play this close
> to the cutting edge so it has been an adventure! Thanks for all your
> help - John
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-- John AlbertsReceived on Thu Apr 16 15:56:01 2009