Re: Possible support for openvz also in the next version of stable
Hi Ben and Pavel
Quoting Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>:
I thought we had declared both OpenVZ and VServer as deprecated in
squeeze, but I misremembered - in fact only VServer was deprecated.
That is good news if you ask me.
Therefore I think we need to make a decision regarding OpenVZ in wheezy,
fairly soon; then, if we do not reinstate it, we must announce that
decision.
If OpenVZ is to be included in wheezy, the OpenVZ project and some
Debian developer must be prepared to support it on a baseline of 3.2.y
until the end of 2015 (and also support 2.6.32.y until the end of 2013).
I understand. I had a discussion with Pavel on openvz yesterday and he
told me that they are going to port the changes to 3.4.y version, but
maybe I can convince them to support it on an earlier release.
If you cannot do this then it may be that you can serve Debian users
better by providing your own APT repository and kernel packages. The
Debian kernel team can probably provide you some help with setting that
up.
I agree on that. There are good rhel kernels that I understand can be
ported to Debian using alien, but I guess that is nothing that would
be accepted in Debian. I do not even know how well they work on Debian
in the current state. I have to check that.
The current status of OpenVZ support for 2.6.32.y is that the git
repository (git://git.openvz.org/pub/linux-2.6.32-openvz) has not been
updated for 10 months. The longterm updates 2.6.32.29 and 2.6.32.47
included major cfq and scheduler changes that conflicted with OpenVZ;
these have had to be reverted for Debian's OpenVZ flavour. All we have
had in that time is, I think, 5 bugfix patches.
As I understand from openvz they have been a bit too focused on the
rhel kernels.
Pavel, can you comment on the possibility to provide this support. I'm
willing to help but I guess I need some support from you as well.
Best regards,
// Ola
Ben.
On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 23:07 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 09:16:48PM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> Hi kernel maintainers
>
> I'm the maintainer of vzctl and vzquota in Debian and would like to bring
> openvz kernel support up for discussion. I saw that a few of the
openvz bugs
> on the kernel have been closed with the reason that it is no
longer supported
> in wheezy. This is fully true and I do not object to the close of
the reports.
>
> What I would like to bring up for discussion is what would be
required from
> the openvz project to get back the support for openvz in the Debian kernel
> again for the next stable release.
[...]
As a necessary (but not sufficient) condition, you and the OpenVZ
project would have to support OpenVZ in the *current* Debian stable
release. The last release based on 2.6.32.y was made in March. For
our OpenVZ kernel configurations we had to revert all the scheduler
fixes made in 2.6.32.29 due to conflicts which we obviously do not
have the necessary knowledge to resolve.
It seems to me that the OpenVZ project does not support longterm
releases other than RHEL. That's fine by me, just so long as no-one
pretends otherwise.
And all the above was previously discussed in
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.kernel/71880/focus=71908>.
Ben.
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