Subject: Re: [vserver] guest libraries vs host libraries
From: Chuck <chuck@sbbsnet.net>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 08:36:57 -0400

On Tuesday 27 May 2008, Martin wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 15:45 -0400, Chuck wrote:
> > someone wants me to run a debian sarge vserver on our gentoo amd64 machine 
> > which was compiled using glibc 2.6 libraries and nptl with no deprecated 
> > linux threads support.
> If it was me I'd politely point out that etch has been stable for over a
> year now and that this means sarge no longer gets security updates.
> Thus unless they are willing to do their own security and backporting of
> patches, it can't be run safely.
> 
> > will this cause a problem for the debian vserver to run considering it is 
> > compiled with 'ancient' libraries? i think glibc2.0 or something like 
that.
> 2.3.2
> 
> > i know nothing about debian so if i just 'talked thru my hat' i 
apologize :)
> It's not really a debian question as much as general linux question.
> 
> As long as the amd64 kernel has support for running the right format
> (x86 probably) of binaries it *should* work.  NPTL / Linux threads is a
> libc issue, so you should be able to run the host on NPTL and the guest
> on linux threads - given that the kernel has support for both (IIRC
> Linux threads used clone(2) / vfork or similar).
> 

thanks! i will let him know.

> Cheers,
>  - Martin
> 
> 
> 



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Chuck