Impact of using RHEL5 Kernel with Fedora 10?

MikeyCarter · 04-08-2009, 01:51 PM

I have Fedora 10 installed on my server and I'm running qemu-kvm virtual machines. My Oracle Enterprise Linux virtual machine is extremely unstable, and even worse if I add more than one CPU.

I need fedora 10 for the main server for various software reasons. So I was looking at OpenVZ since xen is impossible with F10. But noticed that OpenVZ needs a "special" kernel.

So my question, what would the impact be if I ran the OpenVZ RHEL5 kernel instead of the F10 kernel?

MensaWater · 04-09-2009, 10:02 AM

Fedora is bleeding edge whereas RHEL has a longer lifetime. I fear you'd have some difficulty getting a RHEL kernel to work on a Fedora host due to dependencies.

You might consider CentOS instead of Fedora. It is 100% binary compatible with the same RHEL version as itself. It also has extras that might satisfy your other requirments.

Also of course most things are open source so you may be able to run your other software on RHEL by compiling your own.