This ebuild installs a vanilla 2.4.17 patched with context-security to create virtual servers (something similar to BSD jails). You also need the vserver-admin tools from bug #19230 to make use of this new kernel. At the moment ipv6-support needs to be enabled to make the kernel compile with this patch. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Created attachment 14566 [details] vserver-sources-2.4.21.17.ebuild
ctx-17a is available on ftp -- renaming the ebuild updates to the new version.
Anyone from the vserver staff has advised me to prefer the ctx17a from Jacques GELINAS (the project maintainer) than the one from solucorp. He had said that the story was long... I don't have more information. :c) I've patch my ctx17 kernel w/ the Jacques patches, and all seem ok w/ the vserver-0.23 tools. cf. bug #19230
I've forgotten the URL :c/ sorry : [ http://www.13thfloor.at/VServer/Patches.shtml ]
I'm using the patches from ftp.solucorp.qc.ca (ctx17a) with vserver-0.23 -- no problems so far. btw. I thought solucorp _was_ the maintainers primary site? As far as I understood the notes on 13thfloor the patches there are unofficial.
another update (ctx-17c) is avail. like the last one: just rename the ebuild. I haven't tested 17c in production yet, but the changes seem small and the kernel builds fine with the new patch. Now there is also a 2.4.22-version of the patch on "solucorp.qc.ca" -- but I haven't even downloaded that one.
This bug is fairly out of date. For the last few months, the vserver-sources have instead had their home at http://www.linux-vserver.org the current "stable" patchset is vs1.20 released by herbert poetzl. Maintainer: Please subscribe to the vserver mailing list at lists.linux-vserver.org to stay up to date. If need be, you may contact me directly, and I'll take over keeping this thing current.
adding myself to the cc
@allen: i wasn't aware that maintainership changed -- it seems that ftp.solucorp.qc.ca (Jaques) is still releasing new versions (both tools and kernel-patch). can you point us to further info regarding maintainership? (i did not find it on http://www.13thfloor.at/vserver/project/) thanks, thomas
As he may well be. herbert@13thfloor.at is the current maintainer of the kernel patchset. #vserver on irc.oftc.net is the project irc channel, vserver@list.linux-vserver.org, as I mentioned before Herbert has pretty much taken the project over. Jacques Galinas didn't do much for a few months and then Herbert asked if he could have the project and Jacques agreed. I'm not sure why Jacques continues to release patches and tools, but Herbert's patches have been very stable and bug-free. To get the full features of Herbert's kernels, you must be running the util-vserver tools released by Enrico Sholz. Unfortunately, the source of the util-vserver tools is currently down. I have md5sum'd versions of all of his tools stored locally on one of my servers if anyone is interested in gaining access to those sources. It seems to me that Jacques Galinas is only doing code work specifically for himself, as he's not an active participant on the mailing list (other than source release announcements). Whereas on the other hand, Herbert Poetzl is taking an active lead in the development and support of the linux-vserver/ s_context project. I hope that I've helped clear up some misconceptions and/or misunderstandings as to the focus of the linux-vserver project. As a side note, Herbert Poetzl is also doing expiremental releases of the vs1.xx patchsets and he's doing the majority of the kernel-level development and testing (I think he said something along the lines of each release is compiled and run at least 10 times without an error before he'll release the patchset).
Created attachment 23344 [details] vserver-sources-2.4.23.1.22.ebuild
I tested this on two machines for a few weeks now and it run fine (with util-vserver-0.26 and the new 0.27).
the current stable is 2.4.24-vs1.22. 2.4.x-vs1.4x will be coming soon hopefully, vs1.3.3/vs1.3.4 is broken unless the Development/iw01.diff and iw02.diff are applied. more information can be gained at #vserver on irc.oftc.net
update: 2.4.24-vs1.24 is the latest stable -- renaming the ebuild + ajusting KV + OKV is sufficient.
Created attachment 25431 [details] vserver-sources-2.4.24.1.26.ebuild latest version -- added new ebuild for convenience.
Created attachment 26913 [details] vserver-sources-2.4.25.1.3.8.ebuild (devel-version) ebuild for the latest deveolpment-version -- beside path-adjustments there are modifications as the patch is now wrapped in an archive (tar.bz2).
2 notes: a) the devel-version (1.3.8) of the patch is also distributed in compressed diff- format -- maybe we should use that one instead of the .tar.bz2-version? b) I found LVM2 to be a good addition to the vserver-stuff: you can create new devices/filesystems on the fly, play around with different filesystems, the vservers are better "separated" from each other, ... If there is interrest in this I could post the ajusted version (vs1.3.8 and device-mapper dm-1).
the latest stable is 1.27 now (haven't have time to test it yet, but a rename should be sufficient). for the devel-version there may be newer "util-vserver" than 0.29 (a prerelease named "~.196") be needed. I haven't yet submitted an ebuild for that (could post it this afternoon if the devel-vserver-patches make it in).
Okies. Checked this in as well.
