On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello,
> We have had our first kernel security update following the release of SL
> 5.6.  We have tested it on a SL5.0 machine.  It installs, runs and openafs
> works on it.  I would feel much better if others ran it to make sure it
> works for them.
>
> Can others test this kernel out on their machines to make sure it doesn't
> break something we didn't expect.
>
> I have also put the new kvm into the x86_64 testing area with the kernel.

I installed the following updates on a SL 5.5 x86_64 system:

 kernel-2.6.18-238.1.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
 kernel-devel-2.6.18-238.1.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
 kernel-headers-2.6.18-238.1.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
 kmod-kvm-83-224.el5.x86_64.rpm
 kvm-83-224.el5.x86_64.rpm
 kvm-qemu-img-83-224.el5.x86_64.rpm
 kvm-tools-83-224.el5.x86_64.rpm

I noticed kvm.ko was built against the 2.6.18-238 kernel. A correct
symlink was created for the 2.6.18-238.1.1 kernel.  One odd
observation is that kvm.ko of the earlier kernels (2.6.18-194.xx) now
points to non-existing files (broken symlinks). This may not be a
problem unique to SL but was probably inherited from TUV.

In any event, kvm guests run fine without any problem under the kernel
2.6.18-238.1.1.

Akemi