Re: CentOS 4 vs 5 for VMware?

[Ray Van Dolson <rvandolson@xxxxxxxx>]

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
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