Editing Install kernel from RPM on Debian 6.0

You can use the latest RHEL6-based kernel builds on your Debian 6.0 machine. Here's how.

{{Warning|While it works, the best way is to use native kernel/tools builds for Wheezy, please see [[Installation on Debian]].}}

== Installation ==
1. Get the latest kernel and utils from [[Download/kernel/rhel6]] (or [[Download/kernel/rhel6-testing]]) and [[Download/utils]]. You need 
* vzkernel
* vzkernel-devel
* vzctl-core
* vzctl
* ploop-lib
* ploop
* vzquota
<code>vzkernel-devel</code> is optional.

2. Install fakeroot and alien.
 apt-get install fakeroot alien

3. Convert all the RPMs to debs using alien.
 fakeroot alien --to-deb --scripts --keep-version vz*.rpm ploop*.rpm

4. Install debs.
 dpkg -i vz*.deb ploop*.deb
If you're having problem about overwriting files from other packages, try adding <code>--force-overwrite</code> option.

5. Modify <code>/boot/grub/menu.lst</code>. See “configuring the bootloader” of [[Quick installation]].

6. Edit <code>/etc/sysctl.conf</code>. See “sysctl” of [[Quick installation]].

7. Make OpenVZ boot automatically.
 update-rc.d vz defaults

8. Reboot.
 reboot

9. Follow the [[Quick installation]] from “installing OS template caches”. 

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