CentOS

Hi!
I need to install CentOS 5 on this hardware:
ASRock H81M-DGS R2.0
Intel Core i5 4670 (Haswell)
16 Gb of RAM
2 x 4Tb HDD Toshiba MG03ACA400

Question in that on this machine must be installed specific software which was designed for 5th version of CentOS and doesn't work correct on higher versions.
Do I have any chances to install CentOS on this hardware? Or which virtual machine can I use to run v5? It will be great if I can run this virtual machine on any distributions of linux. What can you recommend?

Thanks for any help!

I've been running CentOS-5 (both 64-bit and 32-bit) in virtual machines. The host is EL6 with kvm. I believe VirtualBox or VMware will also work for this purpose.

There is no more hardware enablement in EL5 - https://access.redhat.com/support/polic ... es/errata/ - so the method to use new hardware is virtualization.

Install a newer version like EL6 or EL7 which supports your hardware, and run EL5 virtualized.

You can use KVM in latest EL5, all the drivers are built in. With VMWare you would need to install VMWare Tools to get the paravirt drivers (vmxnet3, etc).

Processors are in the Intel support policy - https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/intel - but this lists mostly Xeons, not desktop processors. I'm not 100% sure how they correspond.