[Debian] Re: pb kernel : kernel 2.6.26-2-openvz-amd64

[Ola Lundqvist]

Hi Bertrand

I'm now forwarding your email to the openvz project so they can
answer on that question.

Best regards,

// Ola

On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 06:20:10PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 04:15:55PM +0200, bertrand wrote:
> > Dear Mister or Madam,
> >
> > I am contacting you today because my company uses servers with a kernel  
> > "kernel 2.6.26-2-openvz-amd64".
> >
> > We would like to know if this version is stable or not.
> 
> That kernel is part of the current Debian stable release (5.0, codename
> "lenny").  This does not necessarily mean that the kernel is stable in the
> sense of not crashing; it means that we make minimal changes to it to fix
> important bugs and to add support for new hardware.  However, we hope that
> this approach means there are few bugs in the kernel that can cause it to
> crash.
> 
> > The official website "http://wiki.openvz.org/Download/kernel" indicates  
> > that this version is not supported yet. Do you confirm this information ?
> 
> That may be the position of the OpenVZ project.
> 
> Ben.
> 
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> Ben Hutchings
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