[Users] 64-bit host, 32-bit guests and iptables

Listaccount lst_hoe01 at kwsoft.de
Thu Dec 20 10:47:19 EST 2007


Zitat von Kirill Korotaev <dev at sw.ru>:

> Cliff Wells wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 20:46 +0300, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
>>
>>> Cliff, moreover, we drop support of 2.6.22 and want to develop 2.6.24 up to
>>> really stable (for Ubuntu release).
>>
>>
>> So does this mean 2.6.24 is slated as the replacement for 2.6.18?
>
> no. 2.6.18 will live very very long, as long as RHEL5 will live.
> (at least 4-5 years AFAIR)
>
> The same way 2.6.9-RHEL4 is also alive and supported and is not   
> going to die yet.
>
> 2.6.24 is developed for Ubuntu Long Term Support Server
> and won't have new OVZ features compared to 2.6.18.
> i.e. we are currently very much commited to 2.6.18-RHEL5
> and will add features there (even to stable branch) as long as needed.

Does this mean that the 32-bit iptables problems on 64-bit hosts will  
be fixed in 2.6.18 OpenVZ kernel?

Would be nice as we plan to move all hosts to 64-bit but have 32-bit  
guests at least for a while.

Regards

Andreas



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