Re: [Users] Opinions and experience of Openvz

2014-07-22 Thread Aleksandar Ivanisevic
Pablo Silva psil...@gmail.com writes: Hi CoolCold!   Risk is: for example, I'm upgrading a 6.x server centos having a openvz kernel, for some reason when I do yum update shows me an update of the native kernel centos 6.x + openvz kernel update, my question is : who wins, if he wins the

Re: [Users] Opinions and experience of Openvz

2014-07-17 Thread Roberto Mello
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Pablo Silva psil...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Colleagues, I would like to know your experience using openvz, my boss tells me that if we use openvz, when you upgrade from Centos 6.x, we lose the openvz kernel and leave offline multiple virtual machines. Exists this

Re: [Users] Opinions and experience of Openvz

2014-07-17 Thread CoolCold
There is no problem to run OpenVZ on Centos 6 based system, both userspace and kernel are supported well. On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 7:05 PM, Pablo Silva psil...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Colleagues, I would like to know your experience using openvz, my boss tells me that if we use openvz, when you

Re: [Users] Opinions and experience of Openvz

2014-07-17 Thread Pablo Silva
Thanks CoolCold, but my question is about the risk, has you know openvz need a special kernel, you must to install and therefore update as necessary, my boos said: that if we use openvz, when you upgrade from Centos 6.x, we lose the openvz kernel and leave offline multiple virtual machines, exist

Re: [Users] Opinions and experience of Openvz

2014-07-17 Thread CoolCold
I'm not sure I understand what you take under the risk term here. Is the problem in, installing appropriate kernel for Centos 6 via yum, install updates for it via yum or what? On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 8:42 PM, Pablo Silva psil...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks CoolCold, but my question is about the

Re: [Users] Opinions and experience of Openvz

2014-07-17 Thread jjs - mainphrame
The openvz install takes care of the kernel dependencies. No worries about overwriting the openvz kernel with a non-vz-aware kernel with a yum update. Also, the openvz kernel is maintained and kept up to date, incorporating upstream security patches quickly. I haven't seen any problem with updates

Re: [Users] Opinions and experience of Openvz

2014-07-17 Thread Pablo Silva
Hi CoolCold! Risk is: for example, I'm upgrading a 6.x server centos having a openvz kernel, for some reason when I do yum update shows me an update of the native kernel centos 6.x + openvz kernel update, my question is : who wins, if he wins the upgrade kernel centos 6.x then could eventually

Re: [Users] Opinions and experience of Openvz

2014-07-17 Thread Scott Dowdle
Greetings, - Original Message - Thanks CoolCold, but my question is about the risk, has you know openvz need a special kernel, you must to install and therefore update as necessary, my boos said: that if we use openvz, when you upgrade from Centos 6.x, we lose the openvz kernel and

Re: [Users] Opinions and experience of Openvz

2014-07-17 Thread Pablo Silva
Thanks Keith, my question was about kernel update in centos 6.x ... -Pablo On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Keith Keller kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us wrote: On 2014-07-17, Pablo Silva psil...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Colleagues, I would like to know your experience using openvz, my

Re: [Users] Opinions and experience of Openvz

2014-07-17 Thread Pablo Silva
Hi Scott! Thanks for your reply, my question is update not upgrade..., if we choose centos 6.x, install openvz, and for any reason some people run yum update, we don't get offline all vm hosting there..., doubt my boss goes through the kernel update ... the interprets it as a risk, and you are