I started out using debian, but I'm building new openvz servers on centos. There are some who for ideological reasons prefer to stick with debian, and I completely understand that. The rhel-based kernel provides the best results for existing debian openvz servers. Personally I'm pragmatic, and prefer what works best, but changing distros can take awhile when production servers are involved.<div>
<div><div><br></div><div>Joe<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Scott Dowdle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dowdle@montanalinux.org">dowdle@montanalinux.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Greetings,<br>
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> I'm running openvz on Debian 6 and recently switched to the<br>
> rhel6-based kernel which provides the vswap configuration option.<br>
> That was a big improvement, and the rhel kernel rpms were very easy<br>
> to convert to debs which worked like a charm.<br>
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</div>Just a few comments. If you want to run the RHEL6 kernel, and that's what I'm running, why not run it on RHEL6 or a RHEL6 clone?<br>
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Debian isn't supported very long... about 3 years (from initial release). RHEL6 will be supported for some time.<br>
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On an OpenVZ host node installing services and adding users isn't recommended and you want to keep your host node pretty minimal. I know one of the advantages of Debian is that it is a fantastic server OS with a large library of software... which you don't care about for an OpenVZ host node.<br>
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I'm just saying. :)<br>
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TYL,<br>
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