Re: Using Jessy with an older linux kernel

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br>]

On Ter, 02 Jun 2015, Freek Dijkstra wrote:
> Is it possible to run Jessy software and packages with an older (3.2 or
> even 2.6) Linux kernel?

It depends.

> The VPS that my hosting provider offers, uses OpenVZ (or more likely,
> it's commercial counterpart, Odin Virtuozzo). OpenVZ provides operating
> system-level virtualization (unlike paravirtualization as offered by Xen
> or KVM). This means the kernel can't be changed from the guest OS, only
> from the hypervisor. So I'm stuck with an older kernel.
>
> I've been successful in upgrading from Wheezy (7) with a Linux 3.2
> kernel to Jessy (8) on a test-VPS, and everything seems to work fine.
>
> My production server is still running Squeeze (6.10 with LTS), with a
> Linux 2.6.32-042stab092.3 kernel.

This version will probably not work with systemd, but an updated  
kernel is available: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=179343  
. You could ask your provider to upgrade the kernel.

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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
eduardo@kalinowski.com.br