> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf Of Rudi Ahlers > Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 2:23 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: [CentOS] (re)load new kernel with rebooting host node? > > Hi all, > > Is it possible to reload the dom0 / host node's kernel with a newer > one, without rebooting the server? I know kexec can do something like > this for security patches, but I don't know much about kexec, and I > don't want to mess up a production server either. So, has anyone done > something like this before? I need to load a new kernel for one of the > domU's iptables to work, but don't want to reboot the whole server and > cause downtime for the other domU's. --- You're a lot better off go over to the Linux Kernel Devel site. AFIK kexec can only do this on real hardware. I think your better off scheduling downtime for the server. Although kexec does have a site page. John