[Users] CentOS varients... how about an OpenVZ one?
Jean-Marc Pigeon
jmp at safe.ca
Thu Apr 3 11:18:55 PDT 2014
Bonjour,
Centos Varients?, an openvz one... Great!
I am playing with this idea right now.
A small liveCD, ready to install a HOST with
centos and openvz kernel (for now centos-6.5), "no bell and whistle"
something very very basic/direct, useful for TI not afraid by
2 or 3 CLI commands.
What I have in mind? in the next month is to have a Centos-7 without systemd
(IMHO; for server; systemd will only bring big trouble).
Using openvz kernel for 7 years now, very very good job, too bad it
was/is not included directly in the Linux kernel (openvz deserve it)
Someone willing to share idea on this?
Quoting Hristo Benev <foxb at abv.bg>:
>> -------- Оригинално писмо --------
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> >От: Scott Dowdle dowdle at montanalinux.org
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> >Относно: [Users] CentOS varients... how about an OpenVZ one?
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> >До: OpenVZ users <users at openvz.org>
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> >Изпратено на: Четвъртък, 2014, Април 3 18:39:21 EEST
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>> Greetings,
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>>
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>> I've used RHEL, CentOS and Fedora for many years... and as many of
>> you on this list may know... back in January, CentOS because a
>> sponsored project of Red Hat. For the upcoming CentOS 7 release
>> they are going beyond just the normal release that is an
>> as-perfect-as-possible clone of RHEL. They have this concept of
>> variants... where Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are formed around
>> making a special purpose build of CentOS... a spin or remix if you
>> will. I don't know a lot about it yet but I think I have the basic
>> concept correct.
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>>
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>> Looking at the numbers on http://stats.openvz.org/ I see:
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>> Top host distros
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>> -----------------
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>> CentOS 56,725
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>> Scientific 2,471
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>> RHEL 869
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>> Debian 576
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>> Fedora 111
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>> Ubuntu 82
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>> Gentoo 54
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>> openSUS 18
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>> ALT Linux 10
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>> Sabayon 6
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>>
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>> and
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>>
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>> Top 10 CT distros
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>> -------------------
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>> centos 245,468
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>> debian 106,350
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>> ubuntu 83,197
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>> OR 8,354
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>> gentoo 7,017
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>> pagoda 4,024
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>> scientific 3,604
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>> fedora 3,173
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>> seedunlimited 1,965
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>> The popularity of CentOS as both an OpenVZ host and an OpenVZ
>> container surely has to do with the fact that the two stable
>> branches of the OpenVZ kernel are derived from RHEL kernels.
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>>
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>> Wouldn't be nice if there were a CentOS derivative that had the
>> OpenVZ kernel and utils pre-installed? I think so.
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>>
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>> While I have made CentOS remixes in the past just for my own
>> personal use... I have not had any official engagement with the
>> CentOS community. I was curious if there were some OpenVZ users
>> out there who are already affiliated with the CentOS Project and
>> who might want to get together in an effort to start a SIG and
>> ultimately a CentOS 7 variant. Anyone? I guess if not, I could
>> make a personal goal of building a CentOS and/or Scientific Linux
>> 6-based remix that includes OpenVZ... as well as working on it
>> after RHEL7 and clones are released... and after such time the
>> OpenVZ Project has released a stable branch based on the RHEL7
>> kernel.
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>>
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>> I will acknowledge up front that some of the top CentOS devs /
>> contributors have historically been fairly nasty to OpenVZ users on
>> the #centos IRC channel. They generally did not want to help
>> someone using a CentOS system running under an OpenVZ kernel... but
>> then again... they reputation is for being obnoxious to many groups
>> of people. :) I don't think we should let that stop us.
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>>
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>> Comments, feedback, questions?
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>>
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>> I'll also post this to my personal blog as well as the OpenVZ blog.
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>> TYL,
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>> --
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>> Scott Dowdle
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> It will be nice to have some special attention in CentOS community,
> but what exactly will be the purpose of that group?
>
> What will be the difference from stock CentOS?
>
> Currently is kernel + tools.
>
> Is it worted to do special re-spin just for that?
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> As for support I rarely visited IRC, but on the forum most of
> support requests were from CT users experiencing limitations imposed
> by Hosting provider.
> There is no way this could be fixed from CentOS devs - they simply
> do not have control over server.
> Neither the user.
>
> Just my 2c
>
> Hristo Benev
> IT professional
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