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#1 2011-06-09 12:58:18
- jack.mitchell
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[Solved] Arch as an OpenVZ Guest
Ok, so i've aquired myself a new OpenVZ VPS and the template used is taken from the OpenVZ wiki, I have reason to believe it was created by our very own Wonder. Now the issue is the kernel is fairly out of date and I have no idea how to update it, should I compile it myself and if so are there any patches that need to be applied? It is currently running 2.6.18-238.9.1.el5.028stab089.1. Now I also managed to compile the ovz kernel in the aur (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36199) but I don't know how to set the VM to boot that kernel as Grub isn't installed?! Any help or even how I would go about rolling my own template would be much appreciated.
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#2 2011-06-09 13:19:14
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Re: [Solved] Arch as an OpenVZ Guest
openvz guests are just templates who run on top of host kernel. you cannot do a think about it.
other virtualization solutions like xen allows to boot any kernel using pv-grub
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
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#3 2011-06-09 13:25:53
- jack.mitchell
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Re: [Solved] Arch as an OpenVZ Guest
Ok, that makes mass amounts of sense, it all clicks! So, is there anyway of doing something with my OpenVZ Arch that will let me upgrade to the new GlibC, otherwise it's fairly useless as a lot of things I need depend on it.
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#4 2011-06-09 13:32:02
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Re: [Solved] Arch as an OpenVZ Guest
define new glibc... are you talking about 2.14 or 2.13 compiled with minimal kernel 2.6.18?
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#5 2011-06-09 13:45:53
- jack.mitchell
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Re: [Solved] Arch as an OpenVZ Guest
define new glibc... are you talking about 2.14 or 2.13 compiled with minimal kernel 2.6.18?
Perfect. I love this community - will drop ioni a quick thanks, also thanks for your help Wonder.
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#6 2011-06-09 13:46:34
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Re: [Solved] Arch as an OpenVZ Guest
ioni or wonder same guy 
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