[Users] Fedora 10 i386/x86_64 default/minimal OS Templatesreleased to contrib

[Robert Nelson]

You mean the one that has this on the wiki page?

    Changes
        Initial 2.6.26 release: very unstable, not recommended to use

Does anyone know what the plan is regarding producing a new 
"stable/reliable/usable" version of an OpenVZ kernel beyond 2.6.18?

I thought it was going to be 2.6.24 but it has never transitioned from 
development.  Now there seems to be this new development kernel based on 
2.6.26.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw at WittsEnd.com>
To: <users at openvz.org>
Cc: <mhw at WittsEnd.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 3:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Users] Fedora 10 i386/x86_64 default/minimal OS 
Templatesreleased to contrib

On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 13:03 -0800, Robert Nelson wrote:
> Which version of the OpenVZ kernel are you using to run containers built
> using this template?  I've tried using the 2.6.18 RHEL5 versions but a
> number of commands fail.  It appears that Fedora 10 isn't compatible with
> the older kernels.  For example "touch x" results in "touch: setting times
> of `x': Bad address".  At first I thought it was something wrong with the
> vzpkg2 templates I created but it also happened with your template.

 Wow...  I'm not sure I would even expect that to work.  I might expect
older applications and distros to run on newer kernels (they do strive
for that direction of backward compatibility) but Fedora 10 is going to
have the latest apps built for and trying to take advantage of the
latest kernel features.  I would expect them to get really upset if they
were stuck on a cranky kernel that's 9 revs back (RHEL 5 == 2.6.18,
Fedora 10 == 2.6.27).  That's one of the reasons I'm running the latest
2.6.26 ovz kernels on all my virtualization engines.  I've had no
stability problems and it runs all the old images just fine for me.

 Try them again on 2.6.26-bulgakov.1 and see if they don't run one heck
of a lot better.

 Mike

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