[Users] LiveCD OpenVZ

[Scott Dowdle]

Nirmal,

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> Ok. I used CentOS 5.5 and things seem to go fine so far (atleast
> container creation and basic stuff). Thanks for all the suggestions.

Glad to hear it.

> Am planning to run latest kernel (2.6.31+) in production. Any idea
> when 2.6.32 openvz kernel will become stable/production ready?

No idea.  There have been a host of devel kernels... but I have yet to see them make it to the stable stage.  2.6.32 is a bit different though because it is the kernel in the latest Ubuntu, the upcoming Debian, and in the upcoming RHEL 6 / CentOS 6.

> Also, I tend to think there is quite an amount of dependency between
> the distribution and OpenVZ in the sense the tools do not work
> everyone - for eg, I initially had trouble with vzpkg, vzrpm etc. not
> supporting python 2.5+ and I cannot downgrade python in Fedora 12 as
> there were other (non VZ) application dependencies (including yum). So
> also wanted to know when these tools be updated, if there is such a
> plan?

So far as I can tell vzpkg and its pieces are dead.  Some time ago an independent developer in the Seattle area created what he called vzpkg2 and pkgcacher... and he got it 99% done.  It works quite well and it expanded the scope to include .deb based distros in addition to .rpm.  Then he disappeared and it has sat idle.  It would be nice if someone would pick it up. I'm not a C programmer so no chance here.

The alternative to vzrpm is simply running the package managers inside of the containers.

TYL,
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