Re: [vserver] Any way to get vserver officially in RedHat?

From: Michael S. Zick <mszick_at_morethan.org>
Date: Tue 09 Jun 2009 - 16:16:19 BST
Message-Id: <200906091016.21949.mszick@morethan.org>

On Tue June 9 2009, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 07:52:45AM -0500, John Alberts wrote:
> > I've been using vserver for on various servers for at least 4 years
> > now. If you need to have Linux guests running on a Linux host, IMHO,
> > there is no better solution. Using something like Xen or VMware in
> > this situation is a waste of money and hardware resources.
>
> that's the point of OS Level virtualization/isolation
>
> > Vserver is the perfect solution for our environment where I am working
> > at now. I have been here for a little over a year now and I am trying
> > to convince them to use VServer instead of wasting time and money on
> > VMware in our environment.
>
> > My bosses love the idea of using VServer;
> > however, they are unable to use anything that isn't part of the
> > official Red Hat distribution.
>
> tough luck then ... i.e. they have to use whatever
> RedHat provides ...
>
> > I've tried to convince them of the advantages of using CentOS;
> > however, they are dead set on only using their officially supported
> > OS, Red Hat.
>
> > I would assume there are likely many other companies that are in a
> > similar situation and unable to use CentOS so they can use VServer.
>
> I do not understand the 'situation' you are seeing ...
>
> incompetence? ignorance?
>

Terms of the commercial support contract?

Mike
> > Is there any chance of ever getting VServer support in the official
> > Red Hat kernels? I know I should probably ask this in a Red Hat list,
> > but I figured if there was any discussion about it, someone on this
> > list would know.
>
> sure, if somebody from RedHat decides to add Linux-VServer
> kernels to their distribution, why not? it works, at least
> to some degree, for other distributions ...
>
> best,
> Herbert
>
> > Thanks
> >
> > --
> > John Alberts
>
>
Received on Tue Jun 9 16:16:37 2009

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