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Prof. Farnsworth
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-amd64More info is available from https://wiki.openvz.org/Installation_on_Debian and http://download.openvz.org/debian/
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Comments
Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
We are doing it for Debian mostly because OpenVZ kernel used to be a part of official Debian releases, and now it's not so. Besides, this repo should work for 12.04 LTS (although I haven't tested it).
Is there any chance on the .debs provided that we can get JFS enabled in the Kernel as it ships enabled in Debian 3.x kernels and even in the 2.x branch kernels as well?
K
Edited at 2014-11-03 10:31 pm (UTC)