I'm currently running several servers (for development environments) on Debian Squeeze but am in the process of migrating to CentOS 6 because it seems to be a better supported environment and also provides an LTS OS, whereas Debian's support lifecycle is more "nuanced."
My assumption is also a larger bas of OpenVZ users run on RHEL-derivatives than Debian, so it is always a safer bet. Running RHEL6 kernels on Debian boxes since more problematic than migrating to CentOS, even though I prefer Debian-based distros. My other concern is the long term viability of OpenVZ on non-RHEL-based distributions given that Ubuntu dropped OpenVZ support and it seems that Debian will as well, given that (for good or evil) LXC seems to be the container-based solution that Debian and Ubuntu are going forward with. The only problem I've encountered with OpenVZ on Debian (which is also a concern) is http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1747 - mdf On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Kirill Kolyshkin <[email protected]> wrote: > You don't have to switch the OS, just use rhel6 kernel. It is in rpm so for > now you have to use alien plus do some work after installing new kernel (run > mkinitd, modify grub.conf). We plan to provide deb report for rhel6 kernel > real soon. > > On Sep 30, 2011 8:49 PM, "Hansel Dunlop" <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hello, >> >> A question for the list. >> >> We have developed a web service on 64 bit Debian locally on ZEN and for >> deployment on AWS. We really want to use OpenVZ so that we can give our >> users persistent console sessions across deployments of our software. >> >> During our experiments with OpenVZ we discovered that Chkpt/Restore >> doesn't work on 64 bit Debian (or we couldn't make it work) which seems >> to be a known problem. >> >> We figure it could be three or four weeks of work to switch to CentOS or >> Scientific Linux. >> >> What advice do people have? I've been reading through the mailing lists >> but I don't feel like I have a clear picture of what is working and what >> is not right now. Are there events in the near future which might make >> this easier? Does anyone have working checkpointing on 64 bit Debian? >> Would it be quicker for us to try and fix the Debian issue itself? >> >> Any advice greatly appreciated! >> >> Kind regards >> >> -- >> Hansel Dunlop >> [email protected] >> >> PythonAnywhere: A console in your browser >> http://pythonanywhere.com >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users
