Unable to install rhev-agent on a rhel 5.X guest which is using kernel-PAE.

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Issue

  • Unable to install rhevm-agent or rhevm-guest-agent on a 32bit RHEL 5.X guest which is booted with kernel-PAE and no normal kernel installed on it
[root@]# rpm -ivh rhev-agent-2.3.16-4.el5_7.noarch.rpm
warning: rhev-agent-2.3.16-4.el5_7.noarch.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 37017186
error: Failed dependencies:
        kernel > 2.6.18-238.5.0 is needed by rhev-agent-2.3.16-4.el5_7.noarch

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.X
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.X with PAE kernel
  • rhevm-agent / rhevm-guest-agent

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