Subject: Re: [vserver] XEN and vserver in one kernel
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:38:19 +0100

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 04:02:58PM +1100, Ken Yap wrote:
> I'm in a situation where I have to run a vserver kernel 
> on top of XEN in Debian Lenny. 

if with 'on top of' you mean as a domU kernel, then
you do not need anything special, as Xen domU support
is already included in recent kernels

> This is on AMD64. I gather that this is not a problem
> since xen-vsever kernels existed in Etch. 

I don't see a problem either ...

> Since there don't seem to be ready made xen-vserver 
> kernel packages, it looks like I'll have to take a 
> XEN kernel source DEB, fold in the vserver patches 
> and compile.

those are usually for the dom0, but it is possible
to combine those with Linux-VServer as well, but
in that case, I'd suggest to investigate kvm and
probably use that as it is much easier to administrate,
a lot more powerfull than Xen and readily available
in recent kernels as well

HTH,
Herbert

> Does anybody have any cautions or tips for me?

> Thanks in advance.
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