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Warning: this is an old version of 2.6.24 kernel. For the latest version, see Download/kernel/2.6.24/2.6.24-ovz006.2.

Changes

• rebase to 2.6.24.7 kernel to accomodate influx of CVE fixes
• fix for checkpointing and restore of processes which done shmat(2)
• epoll(2) fix in CPT to checkpoint some Fedora template
• fix crash when /vz is on NFS export
• restore plethora of /proc/net/* files inside VE which userspace utilities relies on.
• fix long standing dcache accounting misinteraction with SLUB
• fix occasional oopses when reading /proc/net/{udp,tcp}
• fix minor lockdep warnings

For the complete list of changes in this release, see git changelog for kernel v2.6.24-ovz005.

Configs

• CONFIG_AUDIT=n (known to be buggy in VE/VE0, investigation and proper ban in progress)

Compatibility

• no new issues

RPMS

You need only one kernel RPM so please choose the appropriate one depending on your hardware:

• If your x86 (i686, IA32) machine has more than 4 GB of RAM, choose kernel-PAE RPM.
• Otherwise, use the plain kernel RPM (i.e. kernel).

For more info, see Kernel flavors.

x86 (i686, IA32)

x86_64 (AMD64, EM64T)

IA64 (Itanium)

• RPMS will be provided in future releases.

ppc64 (Power)

• RPMS will be provided in future releases.

SPARC

Currently, OpenVZ project does not have any SPARC hardware to test/build/debug our kernels on this platform.

Source RPM

Kernel patch

This patch is applicable to vanilla Linux 2.6.24 kernel (not to 2.6.24.y), available from kernel.org.

Configs

Official configs of this OpenVZ kernel used to build binary RPMS.

Archives

For other 2.6.24 kernel releases, see download/kernel/2.6.24/Archives.

For other kernel branches, see download/kernel.