[Users] OVZ6 kernel panic on Debian 9

[Scott Dowdle]

Greetings,

----- Original Message -----
> Looks like our attempts to dissuade you didn't work. 😂 I'm not sure
> why you needed to use Debian 9. Yes, you were able to do it, but now
> you have a few potential issues to keep in mind:

Yeah, I don't get it either.  I mean, the two main technical strengths of Debian are:

1) Support for lots of arches
2) Lots of packaged software

For OpenVZ use we don't really care about either of those... because we only care about x86_64 (or maybe some people also still care about i386?).  So far as software goes, we'd prefer to have our container host nodes be very minimal systems with no unneeded software / services.

So far as using RHEL6 (or free clone), it is a no-brainer because:

1) That's the kernel OpenVZ Legacy is using and the systems they test with
2) It is supported for a long time

It might be true that EL6 has less support time left on it than newer Debian releases *BUT* the EL6-based OpenVZ Legacy kernel dies approximately the same time that EL6 goes EOL so that isn't much of an issue either.

You can apply these same arguments to OpenVZ 7 but add that Red Hat has particular experience in developing and supporting KVM, libvirt, virt-manager, etc. since they are the primary developers of those.  Granted, those things are important if you don't plan to use KVM / VMs with OpenVZ 7.

TYL,
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