[Users] Switching from VMWare to OpenVZ?

[Scott Dowdle]

Greetings,

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> It's also worth noting that 2.6.26 isn't a kernel version that OpenVZ
> support, where as 2.6.32 (as used by Debian 6.0) is an OpenVZ supported
> version, so you may want to switch to that before doing a new deployment.

Just to clarify, currently the only OpenVZ kernel branches marked as stable are:
RHEL4-2.6.8
RHEL5-2.6.18

The current OpenVZ devel kernels branches are:
RHEL6-2.6.32
2.6.32
2.6.27

2.6.27 is a long-term supported kernel by mainline I believe.

All of that is documented on the OpenVZ wiki here:
http://wiki.openvz.org/Download/kernel

> Also worth noting is that I don't believe OpenVZ is planned to be
> officially supported in the next Debian version (possibly it will be if
> Linux Containers - LXC - aren't workable).

It is my understanding that Parallels has actually hired a kernel developer in the states to work on LXC in the mainline.  I haven't seen too much info on that yet... but yeah, the long-term future of containers in Linux is LXC.  I don't really recommend LXC now unless you don't mind the bleeding-edge with bumps in the road.

TYL,
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