Subject: Re: [vserver] Any way to get vserver officially in RedHat?
From: "Michael S. Zick" <mszick@morethan.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 10:16:19 -0500

On Tue June 9 2009, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 07:52:45AM -0500, John Alberts wrote:
> > I've been using vserver for on various servers for at least 4 years
> > now.  If you need to have Linux guests running on a Linux host, IMHO,
> > there is no better solution.  Using something like Xen or VMware in
> > this situation is a waste of money and hardware resources.
> 
> that's the point of OS Level virtualization/isolation
> 
> > Vserver is the perfect solution for our environment where I am working
> > at now.  I have been here for a little over a year now and I am trying
> > to convince them to use VServer instead of wasting time and money on
> > VMware in our environment.  
> 
> > My bosses love the idea of using VServer;
> > however, they are unable to use anything that isn't part of the
> > official Red Hat distribution.  
> 
> tough luck then ... i.e. they have to use whatever
> RedHat provides ...
> 
> > I've tried to convince them of the advantages of using CentOS;
> > however, they are dead set on only using their officially supported
> > OS, Red Hat.
> 
> > I would assume there are likely many other companies that are in a
> > similar situation and unable to use CentOS so they can use VServer.
> 
> I do not understand the 'situation' you are seeing ...
> 
> incompetence? ignorance?
>

Terms of the commercial support contract?

Mike 
> > Is there any chance of ever getting VServer support in the official
> > Red Hat kernels?  I know I should probably ask this in a Red Hat list,
> > but I figured if there was any discussion about it, someone on this
> > list would know.
> 
> sure, if somebody from RedHat decides to add Linux-VServer
> kernels to their distribution, why not? it works, at least
> to some degree, for other distributions ...
> 
> best,
> Herbert
> 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > -- 
> > John Alberts
> 
>