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Debian kernel packages

Good news, everyone!
Prof. Farnsworth


Many people use OpenVZ on Debian. In fact, Debian was one of the distribution that come with OpenVZ kernel and tools. Unfortunately, it's not that way anymore, since Debian 7 "Wheezy" dropped OpenVZ kernel. A workaround was to take an RPM-packaged OpenVZ kernel and convert it to .deb using alien tool, but the process is manual and somewhat unnatural.

Finally, now we have a working build system for Debian kernel packages, and a repository for Debian Wheezy with latest and greatest OpenVZ kernels, as well as tools. In fact, we have two: one for stable, one for testing kernels and tools. Kernels debs are built and released at the same time as rpms. Currently we have vzctl/vzquota/ploop in 'wheezy-test' repository only -- once we'll be sure they work as expected, we will move those into stable 'wheezy' repo.

To enable these repos:

cat << EOF > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openvz.list
deb http://download.openvz.org/debian wheezy main
deb http://download.openvz.org/debian wheezy-test main
EOF
apt-get update


To install the kernel:
apt-get install linux-image-openvz-amd64

More info is available from https://wiki.openvz.org/Installation_on_Debian and http://download.openvz.org/debian/

Comments

k001
Oct. 9th, 2013 11:23 pm (UTC)
Kernel for wheezy should work on Ubuntu (or so we hope). Have no time to test it :-/
poige
Oct. 9th, 2013 11:26 pm (UTC)
Personally I have no difficulties with using the latest OpenVZ's kernels with Ubuntu Server. What's more annoying though is user space…
k001
Oct. 10th, 2013 12:27 am (UTC)
Well, maybe we need to set up a few CTs for building the userspace for Ubuntu. What version are you interested in (I suppose it's 12.04 since it's LTS)?
poige
Oct. 10th, 2013 12:33 am (UTC)
Correct — cat /etc/issue.net
Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
poige
Oct. 10th, 2013 01:13 am (UTC)
Actually I answered your question but my peaceful answer was marked as SPAM. ;)

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