RE: [Users] New Kernel Patch

2010-01-18 Thread Dietmar Maurer
- Dietmar Maurer diet...@proxmox.com wrote: Sorry, but so far we only tested on Debian Lenny. But I guess it works on Debian Squeeze as well. Suno, want to give that a try? Just tested - 2.6.18 does not work with new udev (missing signalfd support). - Dietmar

Re: [Users] New Kernel Patch

2010-01-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 18, Dietmar Maurer diet...@proxmox.com wrote: What else is required for udev? Major sysfs changes which I do not think can be backported. -- ciao, Marco ___ Users mailing list Users@openvz.org https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users

LXC-Users list. Was: Re: [Users] New Kernel Patch

2010-01-18 Thread Michael H. Warfield
Scott, et al... On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 15:07 -0500, Scott Dowdle wrote: Wow, I'm really glad you gave the overview of LXC's current status. I am constantly asked about it and have yet to find a good source of information. I guess the mainline LXC developers have a mailing list but I was under

Re: [Users] New Kernel Patch

2010-01-17 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 17, Dietmar Maurer diet...@proxmox.com wrote: Wow, that is very bad news - I guess there will be a major blocker for debian squeeze. What is the suggested workaround for people using older kernels? You lose, there is no workaround. This is relevant for all distributions. -- ciao,

Re: [Users] New Kernel Patch

2010-01-17 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Scott Dowdle dow...@montanalinux.org : I still wonder why you do not use debian ;-) Probably for similar reasons you don't use Red Hat-based distros. I would be interested, in private, to your arguments :-) If you already wrote it, just paste it here, please. If not, then just forget my

RE: [Users] New Kernel Patch

2010-01-16 Thread Dietmar Maurer
What does that mean? Well as is obvious to you, as time passes, the number of distributions that are appropriate to use as an OpenVZ host node is reduced... and it appears that RHEL and CentOS truly are the best distros to recommend for the host node. As the type of fanboy I am, that does

Re: [Users] New Kernel Patch

2010-01-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 16, Scott Dowdle dow...@montanalinux.org wrote: I'm very glad to hear that. Would you recommend that a stock Debian user use your kernel for OpenVZ stuff? If so, I have to wonder how well it would work on the upcoming distro releases that Suno was talking about. Not at all until

RE: [Users] New Kernel Patch

2010-01-16 Thread Dietmar Maurer
I'm very glad to hear that. Would you recommend that a stock Debian user use your kernel for OpenVZ stuff? If so, I have to wonder how well it would work on the upcoming distro releases that Suno was talking about. Not at all until the new RHEL will be released, because modern versions

Re: [Users] New Kernel Patch

2010-01-16 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 12:17:19PM +0100, Suno Ano wrote: currently (January 2010) mainline is in development for the .33 release, .32 is stable and used by most Linux Distributions like for example Debian, Ubuntu, Suse, etc. From what it looks now Debian and Ubuntu are going into freeze for

Re: [Users] New Kernel Patch

2010-01-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 16, Dietmar Maurer diet...@proxmox.com wrote: Not at all until the new RHEL will be released, because modern versions of udev (like the one in Debian testing/unstable) do not support 2.6.18 kernels. Really, do you have more information on that? The current version of udev requires a

RE: [Users] New Kernel Patch

2010-01-16 Thread Dietmar Maurer
On Jan 16, Dietmar Maurer diet...@proxmox.com wrote: Not at all until the new RHEL will be released, because modern versions of udev (like the one in Debian testing/unstable) do not support 2.6.18 kernels. Really, do you have more information on that? The current version of udev