Re: [uml-user] Run 2.6 kernel on 2.4 host

[Richard W. <ric...@gm...>]

On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 7:17 PM, Vladimir "Equidamoid" Shapranov
<equ...@gm...> wrote:
> 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?

Hmm, running 2.6/3 on 2.4 would be challenging.
I'd try to use qemu-system-XY.

-- 
Thanks,
//richard