Message: 60 Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:26:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Joe Pruett joey@clean.q7.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] Any compelling reasons to upgrade to 5 To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.64.0703260725240.19356@q7.q7.com Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed

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I typically buy a new drive, install the newer OS to that, and set up a vmware instance pointed at the raw disks with the old install on it, so I can boot up the old system at the same time as the new one if necessary. Often I get a newer/faster CPU at the same time, so the old system still works about as well as it ever did even under virtualization (sometimes it even gets faster).

I'm looking forward to finding out whether Xen makes this possible in CentOS 5 without VMware.

i think i read that rhel4u5 will have xen in it as well. i can't recall where i saw it. might have been someone getting confused between u5 and rhel5...

I saw that too, it is quite specific, try:

http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3663126

"In addition to the new virtualization feature, update five includes a long list of updated packages that fix bugs and security issues for RHEL 4. The final release of update 4.5 is expected sometime after March 21, 2007."

If this was true I would have expected to see some Centos activity before now.