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This web hosting thread started by dedidude on 4 September 2008

I have a dedicated Centos 5 server that is a live production server.

Now I need to have a server for testing things like new kernels, updated packages or changed settings to check if the web applications still run after these updates or changes before I update the live production server.

For this purpose I think the best way would be to have local virtual machines under vmware, also putting Centos 5 onto the virtual machine and even creating snapshots of it, before an update in case the update breaks too many things, I could just revert back.

My question is how can I make sure that I install the exact same packages and same versions of everything onto the development server that I have on the production server now?

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