Virtualization; Hardware Support - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5.5 - RELEASE NOTES 2010 Release Note
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Package groups can now be excluded in a kickstart installation in the same manner that individual
packages are excluded
hvargs parameter, allowing Xen hypervisor arguments to be specified during a kickstart installation
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Previously, the kickstart installation method offered two options to select all packages @Everything
and * (wildcard). As of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5, both of these options have been deprecated.
Attempting to use a select all packages option will fail, unless the kickstart file also includes package
negation for conflicting packages. Therefore, to install all packages but conflicting packages, the
kickstart file must contain:
%packages
@Everything
-@Conflicts
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 includes the new package sets samba3x, freeradius2, postgres84.
These package sets are only available via kickstart during system installation or through yum for
existing systems.
Hardware Support
The following device drivers are now supported during installation:
• the pmcraid driver for PMC Sierra MaxRAID Controller Adapters
• the ibmvfs driver for Power6 Virtual FC devices
• the bfa driver for Brocade Fibre Channel to PCIe Host Bus Adapters
• the be2iscsi driver for ServerEngines BladeEngine 2 Open iSCSI devices
Note
For detailed information on installation, the
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
2. Virtualization
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 delivers many updates to virtualization. Detailed notes on all the
changes to virtualization components are available in the
Note
Management of KVM based virtual guests using Cluster Suite is now fully supported.
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=558516
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=501438
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http://redhat.com/docs
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(BZ#558516
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(BZ#532777
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(BZ#512237
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Installation Guide
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Technical Notes
Virtualization
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(BZ#529442
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