Hi Andre,
do you have test plans for kernels?
Regards
Volker
Am 03.11.2016 um 22:17 schrieb Andre Moruga <[email protected]>:
>> Thanks for your instructions to get the latest patched vzkernel. Generally I
>> don't want to run nightly kernel builds in production. Will the Dirty COW and
>> future security patches make their way into stable OpenVZ 7 kernels soon
>> after
>> testing in nightly builds? (Same as with OpenVZ 6 stable kernel series?)
>
> Hi Frank,
> I understand your concern; not yet sure if we can offer an immediate solution
> though.
>
> Virtuozzo team uploads stable kernels for OpenVZ version 7, tested for our
> commercial customers, approximately once a quarter. In between, we do not
> test or release any kernels - all the intermediate updates are delivered to
> our commercial customers in rebootless (kpatch) format without building full
> kernel updates. Again, this is a part of our commercial offering.
>
> As for the contributions to the community product, we still build these
> kernels for the "factory" repository. However, we are not equipped to test
> them on regular basis, between these quarterly updates
> We do however invite anyone from the OpenVZ community to contribute resources
> into testing of these intermediate kernel updates - we will be more than
> happy to cooperate and publish these kernels appropriately tagged as
> stable/community tested.
>
> This time, due to the severity of the Dirty COW issue, we'll try to allocate
> our own QA resources to test a kernel with that vulnerability fixed
> specifically for OpenVZ. However, moving forward we definitely need a better
> solution.
>
> So please consider it as open invitation and volunteering opportunity to
> contribute into the project
>
> Thanks
> Andre Moruga @ Virtuozzo Team
>
>
>
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