Hi.
Scott Dowdle schrieb:
----- "Peter Thomassen" <[email protected]> wrote:
kernel is 2.6.26-bpo.1-openvz-amd64 from etch-backports (Debian)
vzctl is 3.0.11-14, from Debian etch.
That is an odd mix of versions. 2.6.26 is the kernel in the upcoming Debian
release but it is NOT based on a stable OpenVZ branch so your mileage may vary.
The current stable branches are RHEL-4 2.6.9, RHEL-5 2.6.18, and vanilla
2.6.18. Rumor has it that the Parallels folks are working on 2.6.27 as the
next target stable branch but we'll see how that goes.
The current version of vzctl is 3.0.23. Historically the packages provided by
Debian have not been very good... mainly because they don't update them. As a
result the OpenVZ project has a repo of Debian packages. If you want to use
Debian on your host node I'd recommend using the packages provided by the
OpenVZ project. You can find info here:
Debian has vzctl version 3.0.22 for their upcoming release. But I want
to avoid upgrading the whole system to a beta state. The kernel I am
using, 2.6.26, is from Debian backports, i.e. it's backported from the
upcoming release to the stable one ("Etch"). There is a special openvz
package for this kernel, so I would have expected that it works together
with other packages from "Etch".
For reasons explained below, I decided not to use the .deb packages
mentioned in the OpenVZ wiki. I got all virtual machines running (manual
config), and I will use vzctl only to enter a machine.
So the question is: Are there any problems to expect while just running
OpenVZ with the 2.6.26-bpo.1-openvz-amd64 kernel I am using?
http://wiki.openvz.org/Installation_on_Debian
Other Debian related wiki pages:
http://wiki.openvz.org/Category:Debian
I myself prefer RHEL or CentOS which are good matches given the OpenVZ stable
branches but there are a lot of folks using OpenVZ on Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo,
Arch, and ALTLinux just to name a few.
I'm stuck to Debian because a migration to another distro would cause
significant downtime, and I have no hardware to use temporarily. The
kernel packages mentioned in the Wiki are packaged in March and May,
resp. I prefer packages that are maintained more frequently (for
security updates etc.).
Thanks for your help, Scott.
Peter
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