Re: UltraSparc IIIi kernel and virtualisation
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 16:42 +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 03:43:41PM +0100, Sander Marechal wrote:
> > Question: If openvz is possible under sparc64, why doesn't Debian
> > support this? It's supported on other archs.
> >
> > Even odder, why does Debian supply SMP and non-SMP kernels for sparc64
> > but only a non-SMP kernel for sparc64-vserver and no
> > vserver-sparc64-smp? As I understand it now, using the vserver kernel
> > supplied for sparc64 would mean that 3 of my 4 CPUs would do nothing
> > since it's not an SMP kernel.
>
> You'd have to check with the debian-kernel mailing list, but odds are that
> simply nobody ever asked? :) Check the BTS too.
>
It used to exist, I used to use it, it used to work - migrated to a new
machine about 2-3 years ago and haven't needed it since. The vserver
dev teams were very helpful in getting things working and do seem to
care about portability.
Cheers,
- Martin
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