Subject: Re: [vserver] Fedora as host?
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 23:58:29 +0200

On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 10:33:13AM +0200, Tor Rune Skoglund wrote:
> Hi List,

> I am about to evalute the use of vserver for a new project. 
> It is suggested to use Fedora as host distro.

suggested by whom?

> * Do any have any comments to the use of Fedora as the 
>   vserver host - related to vserver usage, of course?

probably a good choice, it seems to be well tested there

> * Is it up to date on the vserver tools and patches?

check with Daniel

> * Any particular problems?

not that we know of

> * Works flawlessly? Out of the box?

I'd say so ...

> Personally, I am used to Gentoo, and the vserver system 
> works perfectly. 

> However, in our use case, we might need to avoid a Gentoo 
> due the need of quicker updates than what is possible by 
> a source code based distro like Gentoo.

building rpms from recent tools should be straight
forward (if not already available from Daniel's repo)

best,
Herbert

> Any comments appreciated.

> - Tor Rune Skoglund, vserving since 2001...