On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Jochen Schmitt <Jochen(a)herr-schmitt.de> wrote:
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:09:45 -0400, you wrote:
>Unless you are doing hardware enablement (which probably shouldn't be
>done in EPEL), the best approach I would say is to install RHEL 6 on the
>hardware and use KVM to create a RHEL 5 virtual machine.
I have tried out your suggestion. Unfortunately I have got an
error message during the registration process for software
updates, which told me, that I didn't have any free entitlements,
because the entitlements was used for the based RHEL6 system.
Well, the entitlement you have received should allow you to install
RHEL-6 on a physical machine. On this machine you should be able to
install a RHEL-5 in KVM. The RHEL-5 guest will 'inherit' the
entitlement from the RHEL-6 host, no additional entitlements needed.
For this to work correctly, the RHEL-6 host must be marked as
Virtualization Platform (or something like that) in Red Hat Network.
Maybe the following Knowledgebase article can help you here:
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https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/solutions/9932
You should be able to access Red Hat Network and the Knowledgebase
part of
https://access.redhat.com with your RHN-login.
Good luck,
Niels