[Users] Patch for openSUSE 10.2 kernels?

[Kir Kolyshkin]

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> some time ago there was an OpenVZ kernel rpm for openSUSE 10.1 / SLES 10
> but I have read in the mail archives that this kernel is no longer
> recommended and one should use a 2.6.18-based kernel instead. That's
> fine for me (especially because openSUSE 10.2 also uses 2.6.18), but
> I can't find an OpenVZ kernel patch which would apply to the openSUSE
> 10.2 kernel. There are always conflicts and I'm not sure whether it
> will work even if I fix up these conflicts.
>
> Running the RHEL/FC OpenVZ kernel is not really an option because I
> depend on some of the patches in the openSUSE kernel.
Can you please specify exactly what is missing in our stable/devel 
kernels and is available in openSUSE kernels?
> Will there be
> a patch which works on top of the openSUSE 10.2 kernel or a matching
> kernel rpm?
>   
There will be, but I can not give you any timeframe yet.
> Besides that, I'd like to test OpenVZ on some machines running a
> vanilla 2.6.20 kernel. Are there plans to support that one or merge
> more stuff into mainline?
Definitely. We will start porting to 2.6.20 in a few weeks.
> I'm mostly using the network virtualization
> features and hope the current discussions will lead to a merge in
> the near future.
>
> Regards,
> Carl-Daniel
>