I am still at the OpenVZ booth at LinuxTag 2010 in Berlin. At least two people asked me about the status of OpenVZ kernel for the upcoming Debian Squeeze. Specifically, they said, there is no openvz kernel in "testing" repository (i.e. what will become Squeeze when it will be released). My guess is some more people interesting in that, so here's the public answer.
We are working pretty close with the Debian kernel team, you can see some traces of that on either debian-kernel AT lists.debian.org or debian AT openvz.org mailing lists. Specifically, we work together to bring good quality OpenVZ kernel to Squeeze, and this was one of the main reasons for us to port to 2.6.32.
But yesterday we tried to search for
Indeed, the kernel is now there. So yes, Squeeze will have OpenVZ kernel, and I guess it can also be used by people who switched to Ubuntu 10.4.
We are working pretty close with the Debian kernel team, you can see some traces of that on either debian-kernel AT lists.debian.org or debian AT openvz.org mailing lists. Specifically, we work together to bring good quality OpenVZ kernel to Squeeze, and this was one of the main reasons for us to port to 2.6.32.
But yesterday we tried to search for
openvz linux-image on packages.debian.org and it gave us no results for testing. I then emailed Max Attems (who maintains our kernels in Debian) and this is his response:it should be there now, the switch to libata did uphold testing
transition of linux-2.6 for quite some time, so testing had an
outdated linux-2.6 for quite some while
Indeed, the kernel is now there. So yes, Squeeze will have OpenVZ kernel, and I guess it can also be used by people who switched to Ubuntu 10.4.


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I am a long time OpenVZ user testing new kernels and I wonder where LXC currently is compared to OpenVZ.
Also I wonder if LXC already allows for nested containers? Like CT5 in CT3 on HN.
Maybe some quick blog post in this subject would be helpful for some people like me?