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