On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 08:10:09PM -0400, Ben Hutchings wrote:Yes, my understanding is that they are working to redesign pieces to
> On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 21:35 +0100, Mario Kleinsasser wrote:
> > Hello Dann,
> >
> >
> > I've got your message from the list and would like to ask you what
> > this mean? We are massively using OpenVZ for our containers and this
> > is the base of our weberver farm. The lxc Linux Containers project
> > (http://lxc.sourceforge.net) sounds similar as OpenVZ. Are the kernel
> > patches based upon the work of OpenVZ from Kir Kolyshkin? My colleague
> > and I know Kir Kolyshkin (OpenVZ) since some years and we are in
> > contact from time to time with him.
>
> I believe that many of the OpenVZ developers have also been working on
> Linux Containers.
get them excepted upstream, and then altering the OpenVZ patches to
make use of the upstreamed code. (This is based upon a talk by Kir at
the LF Collaboration Summit in April).
I hope to see a mature/upstream LXC implementation for wheezy to which
we can migrate OpenVZ/Linux Vserver users.
I'd add that, in my experience, the OpenVZ developers have been very
> > I gather that it isn't currently a problem for us because squeeze will
> > have an OpenVZ kernel image but its good to know whats coming next
> > because we then have to productive migrate a lot of instances.
> > Does anyone know whats the currently status of OpenVZ integration in
> > Debian 6.0 and later is? Whats the plan or vision?
> [...]
>
> It is still supported in Debian 6.0, and the OpenVZ developers are
> actively maintaining a branch based on Linux 2.6.32 which we are taking
> fixes from.
good at working with Debian and our users - this isn't a rebuke of
their work, but is part of an effort to reduce the overhead of
maintaining several flavors, and to target upstreamed solutions.