I\'ve been trying to get rabbitmq-server-2.4.0 up and running on Centos 5.5 on an Amazon AWS instance.
My instance uses the following kernel: 2.6.18-xenU-ec2-v1.2>
If you go down the route of building Erlang manually on a minimal OS install, you may also find that you need to install wxGTK & wxGTK-devel in order for all of the tests to build and run correctly.