On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Simon Banton <centos at web.org.uk> wrote: > > I look after a number of CentOS 4.x servers running legacy > applications that depend on ancient versions of various things (such > as MySQL 3.x) and which can't be upgraded without non-trivial > development effort. > > I've been considering virtualising them and as a test have been > trialling with a company that uses Parallels Cloud Server 6. > > However, I've run into a roadblock in that the Parallels Tools > installer in PCS6 require a version of glibc higher than that which > is available in CentOS 4.x (v2.5 required versus v2.3.4 installed). > > Without the guest OS tools installed it's impossible to migrate a VM > from node to node or back it up without shutting the VM down first, > which is less than useful. If you are running physical machines now, you don't have that ability anyway... > So I have two questions: > > 1) Does anyone know if there is a version of the PCS6 Tools built > against glibc 2.3.4 available anywhere? > > 2) Is there an alternative virtualisation environment I should be > looking at which fully supports CentOS 4.x as a guest OS? And if so, > does anyone have recommendations for a hosting supplier that offers > that environment (ideally UK based). Does it have to be hosted? You could run under KVM/Virtualbox/Vmware, etc. on your own hardware. If you have any internet exposure you can't expect to survive long without update support, though. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com