On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Steven Timm wrote:

> I've tested it on i386, x86_64 on my laptop, bare metal servers,
> and Xen instances, all are OK.
> Steve

I tested kernel-xen 2.6.18-238.1.1.el5xen on i386 and x86_64 guests, and 
on the Dom0.  As well I tested 2.6.18-238.1.1.el5 on 2 kvm-based servers
(both them and their 64-bit SL5.5 kvm guests), and all worked fine with this
new kernel..

cheers,
   denice

> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Troy Dawson 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.
>> 
>> To test or update
>> 
>> SL5
>> -------
>>
>>         yum --enablerepo=sl-testing update kernel\*
>> 
>> or you can download rpm's by hand at
>> 
>> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/testing/i386/kernel/
>> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/testing/x86_64/kernel/
>> 
>> kernel-2.6.18-238.1.1.el5
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Troy Dawson
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