On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 08:51 -0700, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: > John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 07:39 -0700, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: > >> Anyone (John?) running CentOS 5 as the host distribution? > >> > >> If so have any of you updated to CentOS 5.3? > >> > >> And ... John have you finished your tests on the patched yum? Results? > >> Good, bad or ugly? :-) > >> > >> > >> \\||/ > >> Rod > > Sorry I missed that there were two of you with first name of John. > > As I asked John Alberts, did you do a yum update or fresh install to get > to 5.3? Fresh installation in my case - John > > > So far, it is working fine. Guest installations of both CentOS 5.3 and > > Ubuntu 8.0.4 all ran fine. vyum from the host and yum from the guest > > appear to be running fine. Cloning is fine. We are having a bit of an > > issue with hashify but I do not believe this is at all related to yum. > > Yeah I remember a thread on this. I haven't redone a vhashify for > awhile. Of course I'm currently only running about 20 some odd guests > per host so don't have a disk space issue. But the first time I did a > unification of the whole server the 30% (maybe more -- it was a long > time ago) recovered space was impressive. > > > \\||/ > Rod -- John A. Sullivan III Open Source Development Corporation +1 207-985-7880 jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com http://www.spiritualoutreach.com Making Christianity intelligible to secular society