From: Alexander Goeres (agoeres_at_lieblinx.net)
Date: Wed 05 Nov 2003 - 10:15:22 GMT
I once tried to make the vservers run on a SuSE disto but after serveral
weekends gave up. That's basically due to my lack of ability to compile a
vanilla kernel on SuSE so that all the modules it has with its standard
kernel work.
We run vservers under Debian 3.0 (Woody) without any problems. The "normal"
vservers (without setting disk-space limits and without setting the context
number :-)) are "simple": I started with the introduction by Jacques (in
april, I think) and worked up my way through the other docs in mentioned
http://linux-vserver.org. Astonishingly there's not really much to do to run
vservers: patching, compiling and installing the kernel, getting the tools of
choice (either from the Debian distro or Enrico's util-vserver), setting up a
vserver, do a "vserver xxx start" and that's it... As a kernel I use whatever
is currently regarded as stable (on the long running system 2.4.18, on the
systems to-be-set-up 2.4.22) and where the developers provide a patch.
I found it to be very stable, relatively easy to install and extremely useful!
Alexander
Am Mittwoch, 5. November 2003 05:31 schrieb ian douglas:
> Considering RedHat's recent press release about discontinuing the "RedHat
> Linux" line in favor of the more expensive enterprise version, I'd really
> like a few answers from others (only had one off-list reply) regarding
> which operating system is going to be my best bet since I'm going to have
> to convert my server to another Linux distro now.
>
> I'll be starting a whole new server to manage everything but curious,
> obviously, which distro people have had the most success with other than
> RedHat.
>
> Thanks for any help on that, as well as my other unanswered questions.
>
> -id
>
> > I searched the site's documentation and found the multi-page
> > "this is what it's
> > capable of" documentation, but didn't see any offhand that answered the
> > following questions. I sent them to Jacques, but I'd like to pose
> > it to the list
> > in general for the 1.0 release so I can get started on vserver in
> > the coming
> > weeks.
> >
> > ---
> > Hi Jacques,
> >
> > I've been daydreaming about a vserver setup for my system.
> >
> > A few things that perhaps would be handy to have in the FAQ:
> >
> > - what OS works 'best'? Kernel version is obviously important,
> > but it would be
> > neat to see some sort of volunteered information from various
> > users as to the OS
> > and version of that OS, that they have the most success with
> >
> > - how does one get started? is it best to start with a totally
> > fresh machine and
> > build from there, or could I start from a medium-sized virtual
> > hosting setup
> > using Linuxconf and build a vserver and go from there? I guess
> > I'm looking for
> > guidance on what should/should not get copied over when building the
> > first vserver - once I build the first one, I can just use the vserver
> > software to
> > duplicate it, but I'm worried about disk space and how to
> > actually mount/share
> > file system areas...
> >
> > - any patched versions of up2date out there? or would I have to
> > tell up2date to
> > save a copy of the RPM's on the disk somewhere and run the
> > vserver rpm utility
> > to patch all vservers? If I have 100 vservers, is there a quicker
> > way to tell it
> > to patch all vservers, or would I have to literally type "rpm
> > server1 server2
> > server3 ... server99 server100 -Uvh *rpm" ?
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Thanks for any additional feedback.
> > -id
> >
> >
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