Hmm, I just re-read
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#deprecated

and it says "Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 will be the last release to include
Linux kernel virtualization featuresets outside of mainline. This means
that the OpenVZ and Linux-Vserver featuresets should be considered
deprecated"

OK, that's fair enough, but it doesn't say

"and support will be dropped about a year after Squeeze is released, but
before wheezy is ready", unless there's some fine-print I'm missing
somewhere...

Doesn't that look like dropping Debian+OpenVZ users in it a bit? 
Suddenly they have to switch to a non-Debian kernel (or otherwise a
completely different virtualisation technology) half way through a
stable release with no notice, and then manually track security updates
outside of the Debian security infrastructure etc.?

Is LXC considered to be a practical OpenVZ replacement by now?  It
doesn't really seem to be getting much attention, and I can't say I know
anyone who's using it...

Tim.





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