[uml-user] Run 2.6 kernel on 2.4 host

[Vladimir \Equidamoid\ S. <equ...@gm...>]

Hi,

I need to run some recent software on a legacy server running 2.4.18 
kernel. Sadly it is not possible to rebuild the sotware to run natively 
with that kernel (our code requires boost, boost requires gcc 4.5+, 
gcc4.5+ doesn't like old glibc and recent glibc doesnt build for 2.4 
kernel).
So I'm trying to run UML 2.6 kernel on 2.4 system. I tried prebuilt 
2.6.27 kernel from (http://uml.devloop.org.uk/kernels.html) but it 
refused to run on 2.4 ("ERROR: kernel too old"). Next, I tried to build 
it on the Debian Woody VM with gcc 2.95 & 3.4 and glibc 2.2 but got 
dozens of errors.
Is it possible to build and run 2.6 on 2.4? What environment is 
required? What are the limitations if any?

Thank you!


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Best regards,
Vladimir