[Announce] New kernel release: 2.6.24 ovz002.2

Kir Kolyshkin kir at openvz.org
Sat Mar 1 06:45:26 EST 2008


OpenVZ project has released the first version of the 2.6.24-based
OpenVZ kernel. Read below for more information. Everybody who's
using this kernel branch is advised to upgrade.

NOTE that this is development kernel branch.


Changes
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* Based on mainline 2.6.24.3 kernel.
* Port to part of net namesaces infrastructure from mainline.
* CPT is back and working (modulo bugs).
* Fairsched was dropped, mainline scheduler is used.

For the complete changelog, see
 http://git.openvz.org/?p=linux-2.6.24-openvz;a=log;h=v2.6.24-ovz002.2


Compatibility
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 * All OpenVZ specific sysctls were made /proc/sys-only.
 * Due to fairsched absence /proc/fairsched, /proc/fairsched2,
   sys_fairsched_* system calls are unavailable, fairsched VE
   tunables are temporarily ignored.


Download
========
http://wiki.openvz.org/Download_kernel_2.6.24


Bug reporting
=============

Use http://bugzilla.openvz.org/ to report any bugs found.

Regards,
  OpenVZ team.




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