Update kernel without boot!?!? From oracle/linux site

Chiron IO io.chir0n at gmail.com
Thu May 10 16:09:37 EDT 2012


On 10/05/2012, at 16:47, Alexandru Juncu wrote:

> 
> On May 10, 2012 10:28 PM, "Daniel Hilst" <danielhilst at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >  From oracle/linux[1] site, they're bragging about having the unique OS
> > that can have kernel updated on the fly..
> >
> > I have two questions:
> >
> > 1) Is that possible, and if is, can this be safe??? On PDF they say
> > about a module that does the trick..
> >
> > 2) Is there any open software project trying this? would be good to have
> > that feature!
> >
> >
> > Cheers!
> > Hilst
> >
> > [1] http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/linux/index.html
> 
> Hello!
> 
> There is kexec [0] that does that.
> 
> [0] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kexec
> 
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Ops, kexec don't do that. Ksplice does.

http://www.ksplice.com/ 

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