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Future of OpenVZ?Future of OpenVZ?Posted Jul 26, 2012 23:51 UTC (Thu) by dowdle (subscriber, #659)In reply to: Future of OpenVZ? by dskoll Parent article: CRtools 0.1 released
The solution is simple... if Debian is dropping OpenVZ support... and they do have a good reason... don't use Debian as your host node distro.
OpenVZ dropped all of the non-RHEL-based branches... some time ago... and while the Debian folks have been maintaining their own OpenVZ branch... there have been bugs and feature differences to the degree that I think the recommendation has been to actually use the RHEL-based OpenVZ kernel on Debian host nodes. The problem comes in with newer Debian releases may not be compatible with the current RHEL-based branches.
For those who really want to run Debian on their OpenVZ host node, perhaps a RHEL7-based OpenVZ kernel (very speculative) from the future will work. :)
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Future of OpenVZ? Posted Jul 27, 2012 15:39 UTC (Fri) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] The solution is simple... if Debian is dropping OpenVZ support... and they do have a good reason... don't use Debian as your host node distro. The solution is not that simple. All of our management tools and scripts assume Debian. I haven't used a RedHat-like distro in years, so I'd have to learn all the new management and packaging tools, modify my scripts, etc. It's not so easy to change a major thing like a distro. I realize OpenVZ has problems, but this decision means Debian Wheezy won't have a viable container system. They dropped Linux-VServer a while back and now they're dropping OpenVZ in favour of LXC, but LXC is nowhere near ready. :(
Future of OpenVZ? Posted Jul 30, 2012 8:04 UTC (Mon) by kolyshkin (subscriber, #34342) [Link]
You can use OpenVZ RHEL6-based kernel on Debian:
http://wiki.openvz.org/Install_kernel_from_RPM_on_Debian_6.0
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