4.7. Kernel
- Kernel Media support
- The following features are presented as Technology Previews:
- The latest upstream video4linux
- Digital video broadcasting
- Primarily infrared remote control device support
- Various webcam support fixes and improvements
Package: kernel-2.6.32-431 - Linux (NameSpace) Container [LXC]
- Linux containers provide a flexible approach to application runtime containment on bare-metal systems without the need to fully virtualize the workload. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 provides application level containers to separate and control the application resource usage policies via cgroups and namespaces. This release includes basic management of container life-cycle by allowing creation, editing and deletion of containers via the libvirt API and the virt-manager GUI. Linux Containers are a Technology Preview.Packages: libvirt-0.9.10-21, virt-manager-0.9.0-14
- Diagnostic pulse for the fence_ipmilan agent, BZ#655764
- A diagnostic pulse can now be issued on the IPMI interface using the
fence_ipmilanagent. This new Technology Preview is used to force a kernel dump of a host if the host is configured to do so. Note that this feature is not a substitute for theoffoperation in a production cluster.Package: fence-agents-3.1.5-35
