Sergey, do you mean that supported distribution for OpenVZ/Virtuozzo will be (or is) VzLinux OS?
Could you document this GNU/Linux distribution with a Wikipedia article? Thanks. El 06/06/16 a les 15:33, Sergey Bronnikov ha escrit: > On 13:23 Mon 06 Jun , Volker Janzen wrote: >> Hi Sergey, >> >>> On 14:39 Sun 05 Jun , Volker Janzen wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Unfortunately no. We don't support upgrade from pre-release version to >>>>> the final one. >>>> >>>> When I use a CentOS 7 as base system and install VZ7 afterward it's not >>>> possible to upgrade, too? >>> >>> There is only one supported configuration for new installations - >>> clean Virtuozzo 7 installation. >> >> okay I see. My setup will be unsupported if installed on plain CentOS 7 >> either way. > > I forgot to mention one important thing in my previous answer. As you know > Virtuozzo 7 based on VzLinux distribution. VzLinux is a Linux distribution > similar > to CentOS but it is not the same. VzLinux is not just rebuilded RPM packages > from CentOS. Some RPM packages in VzLinux contains fixes or changes specific > to > Virtuozzo which are absent in RHEL/CentOS. > > Just for example: > - we don't use stock rsync, it includes implementation of additional option > which makes > container live migration possible. > - vzprocps packages are stock ps/top utilities with our patches to support > containers monitoring > - AFAIK we have patches in gparted package > and so on. > - Virtuozzo contains the package ext4defrag required to working with ploop > images > > If you have time to fight with troubles which may happen in Vz installed on > top of CentOS > or any other RPM based Linux distribution - it is your choice. > > Please understand me correctly, we don't want to support a variety of all > Linux zoo. > It requires much more time of development, testing and support. > >>>>>> It also seems to lack some documentation for my use cases, but I need to >>>>>> start >>>>>> with VZ7 sooner or later. >>>>> >>>>> What usecases are you talking about? >>>> >>>> My current OpenVZ setup has LVM involved. >>>> I want to be able to use simfs based storage on an underlaying LVM volume. >>> >>> Why do you prefer simfs instead of ploop? Did you see comparison simfs vs >>> ploop? >>> https://openvz.org/CT_storage_backends >> >> I think you asked me about this some time ago. The matrix states: Reliability >> Low: big amount of files produce ext4 corruption so often >> >> Why should I use something that tells me it's not reliable? >> >> The /vz partition has also the big advantage of using LVM snapshots and it >> allows rsync of the container data to another host with less overhead. >> >> Also the need to compress the ploop files does not seem to be something I'm >> willing to do. >> >> >> Regards >> Volker >> >>> >>>> And I want to be able to setup KVM based VMs that have a LVM based disk, >>>> too. >>>> In best case KVM VMs can be created from a template, as with the container >>>> VMs. >>> >>> Den, is it possible in Vz7? >>> >>>> Regards >>>> Volker > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@openvz.org > https://lists.openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@openvz.org https://lists.openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users
