Downgrade the kernel to pve-kernel-2.6.32-4-pve (How ?)

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Hello, can someone confirm that i can remove new kernel pve-kernel-2.6.32-6-pve with "aptitude remove pve-kernel-2.6.32-6-pve" and it will boot on the old one ?

pve-kernel-2.6.32-4-pve

proxmox-cbv1:~# pveversion -v
pve-manager: 1.9-24 (pve-manager/1.9/6542)
running kernel: 2.6.32-6-pve
proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 1.9-47
pve-kernel-2.6.32-4-pve: 2.6.32-33
pve-kernel-2.6.32-6-pve: 2.6.32-47
qemu-server: 1.1-32
pve-firmware: 1.0-14
libpve-storage-perl: 1.0-19
vncterm: 0.9-2
vzctl: 3.0.29-2pve1
vzdump: 1.2-16
vzprocps: 2.0.11-2
vzquota: 3.0.11-1
pve-qemu-kvm: 0.15.0-1
ksm-control-daemon: 1.0-6


Can i set running kernel maybe somewhere ? My VM's are unstable on this kernel and i would like to downgrade.

Thank you very much.
 
I did it in two steps:

1. Install the appropriate kernel:
apt-get install pve-kernel-2.6.32-4-pve

2. Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst, so that the desired kernel version is first in the list.

I'm interested in receiving updates for the new kernel branch, so I would not remove it.
 
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pveversion -v shows that the old is already there, so just edit the menu.lst as gkovacs suggests.