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Future of OpenVZ?

Future of OpenVZ?

Posted Jul 25, 2012 12:49 UTC (Wed) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
In reply to: Future of OpenVZ? by Lennie
Parent article: CRtools 0.1 released

OK. I guess I should go post on a Debian forum... AFAIK, they're dropping OpenVZ support for Wheezy. At the same time, LXC is nowhere near ready for production use, so... ouch.


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Future of OpenVZ?

Posted Jul 25, 2012 16:43 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

I believe the OpenVZ developers are involved in LXC in some manner.

Something like LXC is the bits that the OpenVZ people have been able to merge. Or something like that. A 'vanilla' version of OpenVZ so-to-say.

I am not sure about this as it's been a while since I looked into it.

Future of OpenVZ?

Posted Jul 26, 2012 3:17 UTC (Thu) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955) [Link]

That's right, OpenVZ will not be in wheezy. The Debian kernel team generally tries to avoid adding features without upstream support, and the OpenVZ project has not had the resources to support stable kernel branches other than one based on RHEL (I think bug #655385 illustrates the problem - and note that the fix for that is pending!). I would expect that OpenVZ's own kernel packages based on RHEL will be usable with a squeeze or wheezy userland.

Future of OpenVZ?

Posted Aug 1, 2012 1:01 UTC (Wed) by lurdan (subscriber, #77641) [Link]

> I would expect that OpenVZ's own kernel packages based on RHEL will be usable with a squeeze or wheezy userland.

This is exactly what proxmox ve does. (http://pve.proxmox.com)
It works like a charm :-)

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