Re: Using Jessy with an older linux kernel

[Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com>]

On 06/02/2015 08:42 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> 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.

Why not just upgrade to wheezy and leave it at that?? Ric



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