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