[Users] Re: Question About Debian Squeeze OVZ Kernel

[Benjamin Henrion]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Kir Kolyshkin <kir at openvz.org> wrote:
> On 11/10/2011 03:28 AM, JR Richardson wrote:
>>
>> This was great feedback gentleman. I really appreciate your time.  I think
>> I'm leaning toward using the RH kernel on Debian, checking out proxmox
>> now.
>
> You can use latest RHEL6-based kernel builds on your Debian or Ubuntu
> machine. Here's how.
>
>
> 1. Get the latest kernel from either Download/kernel/rhel6-testing or
> Download/kernel/rhel6. You need vzkernel and vzkernel-devel packages only,
> with the -devel being optional.
>
> 2. Install fakeroot and alien:
>  apt-get install alien fakeroot
>
> 3. Convert these two rpms to debs using alien. This is
>  fakeroot alien --to-deb --scripts --keep-version vzkernel-*.rpm

It would be better if the OpenVZ developers contribute patches to the
official debian kernel.

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