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).
I'd rather just go to 5.0, but that's not up to me at the moment.
Thanks.
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.
Doesn't centos 5 include xen? Wouldn't that be faster then VMware server?
Russ Sent wirelessly via BlackBerry from T-Mobile.
-----Original Message----- From: Warren Young warren@etr-usa.com Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 13:56:13 To:CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Is it possible/advisable to run CentOS 4.4 and 5.0 on the same box
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. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On 5/17/07, Russ rsivak@istandfor.com wrote:
Doesn't centos 5 include xen? Wouldn't that be faster then VMware server?
It does, but 4.4 doesn't have the xen-ified bits to run just yet. That'll come with 4.5. Not sure of the speed comparisons between vmware/xen yet.
Didn't 4.5 just come out? Sent wirelessly via BlackBerry from T-Mobile.
-----Original Message----- From: "Jim Perrin" jperrin@gmail.com Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 18:02:01 To:"CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Is it possible/advisable to run CentOS 4.4 and 5.0 onthe same box
On 5/17/07, Russ rsivak@istandfor.com wrote:
Doesn't centos 5 include xen? Wouldn't that be faster then VMware server?
It does, but 4.4 doesn't have the xen-ified bits to run just yet. That'll come with 4.5. Not sure of the speed comparisons between vmware/xen yet.
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