Re: [vserver] 3 basic questions

From: John A. Sullivan III <jsullivan_at_opensourcedevel.com>
Date: Fri 07 Aug 2009 - 22:44:59 BST
Message-Id: <1249681499.6660.13.camel@jaspav.missionsit.net.missionsit.net>

On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 15:25 -0600, Terry wrote:
> Hello. VServer appears to be exactly what I need. It sounds really
> cool. I have a couple of questions:
>
> 1. Is the VServer project still active and going forward? I certainly
> hope so!
>
> I ask because so much of what I have googled concerning VServer
> appears to be several years old, and
> the stable patched kernels seem to be like 3 years behind the event
> wave. And I would have expected a
> tremendous proliferation of this brilliant idea and be seeing massive
> growth! Meaning all the major
> distributions should have acquired patched kernels ready to go. Am I
> missing something? I am really
> excited about this VServer project.
>
> 2. It sounds like to me that I can have an older version of a patched
> kernel for my host, and yet, still run
> newer versions of linux distributions in my virtual private severs
> (and those can be any mix of linux distributions) as
> long as both the host is 2.6 and my VPS's are of the same beginning
> 2.6 version number? (Like I am presently
> running Ubuntu 2.6.28-14-generic on my desktop.) Is this true?
>
> 3. I am a novice concerning this whole area and really don't have a
> clue about what should be enabled in
> compiling a kernel. And I have noticed that some distributions have
> patched kernels that I could use if I
> used their distribution for my host. Could you tell me which linux
> distributions have the most modern
> linux release which also have a patched kernel for that distribution
> available to be downloaded and
> ready to go using their package managers? (-And even allow me to
> automatically get updates...?)
> (i.e. I am willing to switch distributions to get my host setup the
> easiest and simplest way possible,
> and hopefully within my technical ability to get the job done...)
>
> -Or maybe there is a more modern stable patched kernel that can be
> downloaded from some URL?
>
> I really need to implement this to continue with my project. I really
> appreciate your expertise, your help,
> and suggestions.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Terry
>
It has worked very well for us. The development team could certainly
use more volunteers and funding. Regarding kernel versions, it seems
sometimes experimental means experimental and sometimes it doesn't :-).
Best to ask the list. We are using 2.6.28 and 2.6.29 with vserver. I
do not believe 2.6.30 is ready yet. This did require a custom kernel
compilation. Hope this helps - John

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