[CentOS] Is it possible/advisable to run CentOS 4.4 and 5.0 on the same box
Warren Young
warren at etr-usa.com
Thu May 17 19:56:13 UTC 2007
Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
> We are in the process of transiting from 4.4 to 5.0 and I may need to
> be able to switch back and forth for a while. Is it possible (or
> advisable) to run both 4.4 and 5.0 on the same machine, or does that
> involve a lot of reinstalling/repartitioning and a fair amount of pain
> (I have only one disk on the test machine for this purpose).
If it's just for the purpose of supporting software, I'd use some kind
of virtualization and put 4.x in a VM hosted by 5.x. The only time you
need a real machine (instead of a VM) is when you have some hardware
level requirement.
I use VMware's free VMware Server to keep many Linuxen around, which I
need so I can build RPMs for each of the many platforms we have in the
field. Once you have a VM solution set up, you find that you then
create still more VMs for testing and so on. It's liberating.
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