[Users] OpenVZ vs. vserver

[Kirill Korotaev]

>>>So, if somebody needs OpenVZ for some currently unsupported platform 
>>>(say, ARM), they can either do a port themselves, or provide us with a 
>>>couple of boxes and we will do the port.
>>>    
>>
>>maybe I'll have a look at it in a few weeks.
>>  
> 
> See http://wiki.openvz.org/Porting_the_kernel
> 
> Also, you can look up http://git.openvz.org/?p=linux-2.6.18-openvz for 
> patches with PPC prefix in commit subject -- those enable OpenVZ for 
> powerpc arch. Same for sparc -- check for commits from OpenVZ team 
> members with [SPARC] prefix. There are less than ten patches for each arch.
Looking at ppc is better. Sparc is special - it has 64bit kernel space and 32bit
user space, so it required much more efforts (compat ioctl and syscalls).

Thanks,
Kirill