Download/kernel/2.6.24/2.6.24-ovz005.1

Warning: This kernel branch is currently frozen. Essentially that means it is neither maintained nor supported, could contain security vulnerabilities and other bugs, and generally should not be used. Please check the list of supported kernel branches at Download/kernel page.

Warning: this is an old version of 2.6.24 kernel. For the latest version, see Download/kernel/2.6.24/2.6.24-ovz009.1.

Kernel branch 2.6.24
Based on	vanilla 2.6.24
Status	frozen, not maintained
Latest	2.6.24-ovz009.1
Archives	2.6.24
Git repo	linux-2.6.24-openvz

Contents

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)

File	Size
kernel-2.6.24-ovz005.1.i686.rpm	24 Mb
kernel-PAE-2.6.24-ovz005.1.i686.rpm	24 Mb

x86_64 (AMD64, EM64T)

File	Size
kernel-2.6.24-ovz005.1.x86_64.rpm	24 Mb

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

File	Size
kernel-2.6.24-ovz005.1.src.rpm	46 Mb
kernel-2.6.24-ovz005.1.nosrc.rpm	1 Mb
kernel-ovz.spec	16 Kb

Kernel patch

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

File	Size
patch-ovz005.1-combined.gz	825 Kb

Configs

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

File	Size
kernel-2.6.24-i686-PAE.config.ovz	80 Kb
kernel-2.6.24-i686.config.ovz	80 Kb
kernel-2.6.24-x86_64.config.ovz	74 Kb

Archives

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

For other kernel branches, see download/kernel.

Kernel branches
Stable	Testing / Beta	Old
RHEL6	RHEL6 testing	RHEL5 • RHEL4 • 2.6.32 • 2.6.27 • 2.6.26 • 2.6.24 • 2.6.22 • 2.6.20 • 2.6.18 • 2.6.16 • FC5 • SLES10 • 2.6.8
Versions of 2.6.24 kernel
2.6.24-ovz009.1 2.6.24-ovz008.1 2.6.24-ovz007.1 2.6.24-ovz006.5 2.6.24-ovz006.4 2.6.24-ovz006.2 2.6.24-ovz006.1 2.6.24-ovz005.1 2.6.24-ovz004.1 2.6.24-ovz002.2