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Why would I want to use the OSP vs. an RPM? posted: Aug 19, 2009 8:55 AM

Click to view jweinshe's profile Lurker 2 posts since
Jul 27, 2005

I'm running a number of VMs that are RHEL 5.X 32 and 64 bit standard (i.e. non custom) kernels on ESX 3.5u4. I'm trying to figure out if/when I'd ever want to install the OSPs vs the rpm that comes thru ESX.

I do have some VMs which are running 5.X 32bit+PAE (which I understand is not-supported under ESX due to high context switches) - the vmware tools will install into those, so even there I'm not sure when I'd use the OSPs. Of course, the plan is to migrate these to supported 64 bit OSs.


Re: Why would I want to use the OSP vs. an RPM?

1. Aug 19, 2009 10:40 AM in response to: jweinshe
Click to view Texiwill's profile Guru 10,205 posts since
Jan 13, 2004
Hello,

I use OSP when I use latest kernels or ones only the OSP supports. This happens occasionally. The OS Specific packaging in this forum is a good set of tools that make updates fairly easy as it uses repositories over by hand VMware Tools installs....


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Re: Why would I want to use the OSP vs. an RPM?

2. Oct 6, 2009 4:46 PM in response to: Texiwill
Click to view DSTAVERT's profile Virtuoso 2,418 posts since
Nov 30, 2003
Any server you don't want to install a compiler.

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