[Users] Looking for a newer/next stable OpenVZ kernel branch?

[Scott Dowdle]

Michael,

----- "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw at WittsEnd.com> wrote:
> Red Hat 6 is likely to be on a 2.6.26+.  Their view of "stable" seems
> to be "blessed on RHEL".

I believe this too but I haven't gotten any confirmation from anyone who makes the decisions. :)  I think the reason they prefer to pick a RHEL kernel is because they know it will be supported by an organization that has a lot of kernel talent and a solid commitment to supporting it for years.  That may also account for the OpenVZ Project being somewhat commited to 2.6.24 with an Ubuntu LTS version using it.

There is been a considerable amount of churn in the newer kernels, especially as they get container features added... and I'm sure that the OpenVZ kernel developers would like to take advantage of those features but which kernel to pick?  The mainline development cycle seems to be around 3 months now and they don't seem to be committed to supporting any particular version for too long... although rumor has it that 2.6.27 has some blessing and may be maintained for a while.

So far as running newer distros inside of a container on hosts nodes with the older RHEL5 2.6.18 based kernels goes... barring bug 970 (which should be fixed RSN)... it isn't really a problem.  Well, I guess it can be a problem if you would prefer to use a much newer distro as your host node... and your host node distro is unhappy running the RHEL5 2.6.18 kernel.

BTW, my DSL modem at home decided that it no longer knows what electricity is and I've had to order a new one which should arrive sometime tomorrow... so I've been down for a few days... until I got back to work today after the holiday break.

TYL,
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