[lug] Specialized RHEL7 software on Ubuntu

[Brian Fromme]

​Hi Steve,

I would suggest running a RHEL7 guest OS from KVM.  Setup instructions are
here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM/Installation

If you have questions getting it going, please feel free to reach out.

 take care,
 Brian
​

On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Steven A Hart <steven.hart at colorado.edu>
wrote:

> I've got a curious issue and looking for advice.  I'm running a very
> specialized software package from NASA JPL that was designed for RHEL7.  My
> server is Ubuntu 16.04 and the software runs into alot of problems when
> forced onto Ubuntu.  This software is non-graphical for the most part and
> interfaces with python.
>
> JPL's stance is to just reload the server with RHEL7 but I cannot /do not
> want to do that as I have alot of other software packages and data stored
> on the system.
>
> I tried using docker to essentially wrap RHEL7 within Ubuntu but that
> failed pretty quick as I'm not really up to speed using docker.  If that's
> the suggested path, I'll jump back in and give it another whirl.  Just
> looking for suggestions as to other options.  Maybe virtual?
>
> Thanks
>
> Steve
>
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> Steve Hart
> Systems Administrator
> Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research
> University of Colorado Boulder
> Steven.Hart at colorado.edu
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