Subject: Re: [vserver] seeking advicce on Host OS selection
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:26:35 +0200

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 02:40:17PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> 
> Just purchased a Seagate 640G HD with Cache 32M ready for testing
> Linux-vserver.  My preferred Host OS is Ubuntu 8.04.  As advised by
> Nicolas previously on a thread that it does not have an official kernel
> with Linux-VServer enabled.  I'm now searching for a Host OS for this
> test.  Please shed me some light which Linux distro having official
> kernel with Linux-Vserver enabled.  TIA

good support seems to be there for Fedora, Centos,
Gentoo and Mandriva and Debian (but it is recommended 
to build the kernel yourself) packages should be
available for all of them, you might even get away
by using the debian packages for ubuntu

(note that ubuntu was too broken some time ago)

best,
Herbert

> B.R.
> Stephen L
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