For stability reasons, I'm running CentOS 4 for VMware (it's the devil I know). Are there any compelling reasons to upgrade to CentOS 5 for it? I'm relatively new to the whole virtualisation scene and perhaps there are some updated packages that might be good for VMware?
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 10:24:44AM -0700, Rogelio Bastardo wrote:> For stability reasons, I'm running CentOS 4 for VMware (it's the devil I know). > > Are there any compelling reasons to upgrade to CentOS 5 for it? I'm > relatively new to the whole virtualisation scene and perhaps there are > some updated packages that might be good for VMware?Seems to run fine on CentOS 5 as well. CentOS 5 kernel lets you exclude some processes from consideration for "death" by the OOM killer which is kinda nice. :) Of course there are plenty of other settings in the 4 kernel that help keep VMware safe from being accidentally killed. Ray
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 10:24 -0700, Rogelio Bastardo wrote:> For stability reasons, I'm running CentOS 4 for VMware (it's the devil I know). > > Are there any compelling reasons to upgrade to CentOS 5 for it? I'm > relatively new to the whole virtualisation scene and perhaps there are > some updated packages that might be good for VMware?VMware works fine under either 4 or 5, and both 4 and 5 run under VMware on a Linux host, but is your question about CentOS as a host or guest OS? Phil