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

[albinootje]

Robert Nelson wrote:

> You mean the one that has this on the wiki page?
> 
>    Changes
>        Initial 2.6.26 release: very unstable, not recommended to use

Meanwhile Ubuntu has 2.6.24 OpenVZ kernels for their LTS release Hardy
Heron :

http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=openvz


> 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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