Subject: Re: [vserver] vserver in debian squeeze
From: Eric Schoeller <eschoeller@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 12:59:57 -0600

So it looks like the debian team is removing Linux-Vserver in favor of 
LXC. I haven't played around with Linux containers at all. What does 
this shift mean for Linux-Vserver? Is there generally growing support 
for LXC and OpenVZ over Linux-Vserver out there?



ben@bristolwireless.net wrote:
> Quoting "Jeff Jansen" <jeff.jansen@kkoncepts.net>:
>
>> Does anyone know what the "status" of vserver in Debian is after 
>> Squeeze?  Is it
>> still marked as "depreciated" and will be removed?  I see there are 
>> still
>> vserver packages in Sid (http://packages.debian.org/sid/kernel/) 
>> which I didn't
>> expect to see if it was scheduled for removal after Squeeze.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Jeff Jansen
>>
>
> I don't know the status, though I've not heard that its changed from 
> "deprecated". Its presence in Sid though is not relevant to 
> Linux-Vserver's deprecation, it needs to be there so that packages can 
> get to Squeeze, Sid is always the place were things enter the main 
> Debian repositories.
>
>
> Cheers,
> ==
> From Ben Green