On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 06:42:54PM +0200, Peter Mann wrote: > On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 08:26:35PM +0200, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > > 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 > > why is recommended to build Debian kernel ??? i have no problem > with distro kernels it is recommended to build custom kernels. period. :) why? for several reasons: limiting a kernel to the stuff you actually need will result in: - increased performance - increased security - increased stability proper configuration of e.g. network features and memory allocation/config/setup will do similar why don't distributions do that? simple, because they can't ... they have to satisfy a multitude of different systems and unless you build a customized kernel you will end up with the kitchen- sink :) HTC, Herbert > Ubuntu doesn't have vserver enabled kernels (only OpenVZ) - but openvz > enabled kernels in ubuntu is in "universe" repository - so support is > only from community, not from Canonical ... so IMHO is better to use > Debian Vserver kernels ;-) > > -- > > 5o Peter.Mann at tuke.sk >