Hello everyone!
This new release comes with a few new features, a lot of fixes, and a
new (co-)maintainer.
Among the new features are:
- the build method template, which builds guests from tarball(s),
cpio(s) and/or dump(s).
- the build method fai, which builds guests using Debian's Fully
Automatic Installation[1], original patch and testing by Sam Vilain.
- support for CPUSETs in the configuration, to limit guests to certain
CPUs, patch by Jan Rekorajski.
- a namespace cleanup in userspace implementation, by Bastian Blank.
- a delete method to remove guests, patch by Thomas Champagne.
- vlogin, a terminal proxy which creates a psuedo-tty on the inside of
the guest when you use vserver <guest> enter, patch by Benedikt Böhm.
- support for an initialize script, to (for instance) create device
nodes required for the guest's root mount, patch by Herbert Pötzl.
- FC5 and FC6 (in theory) support.
Among the fixes, we find things like:
- vattribute doesn't reset all bcaps when setting ccaps/one bcap.
- chcontext lets you grant more caps than --secure allows.
- start-vservers --all actually means all guests, not just the unmarked
ones.
- make namespaces work on s390/sparc.
- an update to Herbert's shiny10 alternative syscall implementation.
- make vrpm/vapt-get/vyum run inside the network context.
- vserver <guest> suexec lets you specify usernames on 2.6 kernels.
- RPM-based builds on CentOS/RHEL 4.4 should work.
- centos42 was changed to centos4, which should point at the latest 4.x
release at all times.
- vshelper works correctly with legacy support turned off in the kernel.
- Gentoo is now as supported as any other distribution.
- having the guest's / mount in the fstab file should work again
(previously stop/enter would fail).
- the "save_ctxinfo: execv(): No such file or directory" on RH-based
systems should be resolved.
To see the complete list of changes, see the ChangeLog inside the tarball.
Get it while it's hot, in either a gzip- or bzip2-compressed tarball,
from http://ftp.linux-vserver.org/pub/utils/util-vserver/, which is the
new official location. I have signed the tarballs, so if you're
verifying them you'll have to import my key (available from pgp.mit.edu).
[1] http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/
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Daniel Hokka Zakrisson
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