It's possible that your #2 server has not rebooted or had problems with the latest kernel or just has the default set to something other than "0" in grub.conf. What's the output of: egrep 'default|title' /etc/grub.conf yum list kernel | grep kernel ./Cal On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 16:18 +0200, Hans Vos wrote: > Hello, > > Earlier this week I installed a test server with CentOS 5.6 with > Virtualization enabled during the installer. Today I installed another > server using the same method (they are identical servers). I just did a > yum update and I found something curious. Both servers have a different > kernel. Server 1 is at 9.1 version and server 2 at 5.1. How can this be? > How to I get the latest version on server 2? If I run yum update there > are none available. > > If I input xm info I get this one server 1: > > host : server1 > release : 2.6.18-238.9.1.el5xen > version : #1 SMP Tue Apr 12 18:53:56 EDT 2011 > machine : x86_64 > nr_cpus : 4 > nr_nodes : 1 > sockets_per_node : 1 > cores_per_socket : 4 > threads_per_core : 1 > cpu_mhz : 2400 > hw_caps : > bfebfbff:20100800:00000000:00000940:0000e3bd:00000000:00000001 > total_memory : 4095 > free_memory : 383 > node_to_cpu : node0:0-3 > xen_major : 3 > xen_minor : 1 > xen_extra : .2-238.9.1.el5 > xen_caps : xen-3.0-x86_64 xen-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_32 > hvm-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_64 > xen_pagesize : 4096 > platform_params : virt_start=0xffff800000000000 > xen_changeset : unavailable > cc_compiler : gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-50) > cc_compile_by : mockbuild > cc_compile_domain : centos.org > cc_compile_date : Tue Apr 12 18:01:03 EDT 2011 > xend_config_format : 2 > > And on server 2 it is this: > > host : server2 > release : 2.6.18-238.5.1.el5xen > version : #1 SMP Fri Apr 1 19:35:13 EDT 2011 > machine : x86_64 > nr_cpus : 4 > nr_nodes : 1 > sockets_per_node : 1 > cores_per_socket : 4 > threads_per_core : 1 > cpu_mhz : 2400 > hw_caps : > bfebfbff:20100800:00000000:00000940:0000e3bd:00000000:00000001 > total_memory : 4095 > free_memory : 383 > node_to_cpu : node0:0-3 > xen_major : 3 > xen_minor : 1 > xen_extra : .2-238.5.1.el5 > xen_caps : xen-3.0-x86_64 xen-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_32 > hvm-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_64 > xen_pagesize : 4096 > platform_params : virt_start=0xffff800000000000 > xen_changeset : unavailable > cc_compiler : gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-50) > cc_compile_by : mockbuild > cc_compile_domain : centos.org > cc_compile_date : Fri Apr 1 18:30:53 EDT 2011 > xend_config_format : 2 >