Greetings,

I was reading the LWN article from today (free to non-subscribers next 
Thursday). Here's a subscriber link for those who might want to see it now:

CentOS and Red Hat - http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/592723/485ea802859f6c36/

I saw that Xen was mentioned as an area where CentOS went beyond RHEL with 
CentOS 6... and being that I'm deeply in the OpenVZ community, I thought it 
might be natural to have an OpenVZ CentOS Variant.  I just noticed that the 
CentOS Virt-SIG page already mentions OpenVZ.  Is this only for the upcoming 
CentOS 7 or would it be possible to produce a spin/remix that is CentOS 6-based 
that includes the OpenVZ kernel and OpenVZ utils?

Looking at the stats provided by the OpenVZ Project (http://stats.openvz.org/) 
it is obvious that CentOS is the most popular platform for both OpenVZ hosts 
and OpenVZ containers:

Top  host   distros
-------------------
CentOS       56,725
Scientific    2,471
RHEL            869
Debian          576
Fedora          111
Ubuntu           82
Gentoo           54
openSUS          18
ALT Linux        10
Sabayon           6

and

Top 10  CT  distros
-------------------
centos      245,468
debian      106,350
ubuntu       83,197
OR            8,354
gentoo        7,017
pagoda        4,024
scientific    3,604
fedora        3,173
seedunlimited 1,965

This morning I sent out some feelers to the OpenVZ community (via the OpenVZ 
Users mailing list, blog.openvz.org, and the #openvz IRC channel) to see if any 
OpenVZ users were already working with the CentOS project (I'm not).

So does anyone that is part of this SIG care to tell me how much OpenVZ 
interest there currently is and how I might become a part of the effort?  I 
know the virt-sig is probably quite broad beyond OpenVZ.

TYL,
-- 
Scott Dowdle
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