On 2015-12-05 08:33, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Dec 03, James Cloos <cl...@jhcloos.com> wrote: > > > Most openvz run on kernels based on 2.6.32, often with significant > > updates. These platforms are an important segment, given how affordable > > they are. And Debian "stable" is often too archaic for many needs which > > fit nicely on a small inexpensive server. > > > > There should be a way to continue to use sid on these platforms. > I agree. > > On Dec 04, Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: > > > > The latest glibc update breaks most sid installs on (typically leased) > > > openvz platforms because it requires a newer kernel version that most > > > openvz vendors advertize. > > Is it possible for these vendors to switch to a newer version of Linux? > Not at this time, there is just no viable replacement: I expect that > it will take a few years for the replacement to mature to the level of > the current 2.6.32 OpenVZ/Virtuozzo kernel. > (The problem is not just implementing the virtualization features with > namespaces but also replacing the resources accounting system.) > > On Dec 04, Vincent Danjean <vdanjean...@free.fr> wrote: > > > Perhaps they will be more willing to do it when consumers wont be able > > to install the distribution they want on their VM. > As an hosting provider I can say with some authority that this is not > how it works: nobody is going to replace their OpenVZ/Virtuozzo > infrastructure just because newer Debian releases will not work: they > will just stop supporting newer Debian releases until they will switch > to namespaces-based virtualization (2-5 years?). > > On Dec 04, Aurelien Jarno <aurel...@aurel32.net> wrote: > > > If you consider Debian "stable" as too archaic, I am missing words to > > qualify a 2.6.32 kernel released in 2009. Prehistoric maybe? > Unlike Debian, Red Hat keeps backporting new features in the kernels > used by their stable distributions and then will support security fixes > for a very long time. So these kernels are not in any way comparable to > the Debian 2.6.32 ones.
Have there also backported recent glibc or systemd to these systems and do they support such a configuration? This is what we are talking about here. Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
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