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Re: OpenVZ vs. vserver [message #11602 is a reply to message #11589] Wed, 28 March 2007 06:54 Go to previous message
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>>>So, if somebody needs OpenVZ for some currently unsupported platform
>>>(say, ARM), they can either do a port themselves, or provide us with a
>>>couple of boxes and we will do the port.
>>>
>>
>>maybe I'll have a look at it in a few weeks.
>>
>
> See http://wiki.openvz.org/Porting_the_kernel
>
> Also, you can look up http://git.openvz.org/?p=linux-2.6.18-openvz for
> patches with PPC prefix in commit subject -- those enable OpenVZ for
> powerpc arch. Same for sparc -- check for commits from OpenVZ team
> members with [SPARC] prefix. There are less than ten patches for each arch.
Looking at ppc is better. Sparc is special - it has 64bit kernel space and 32bit
user space, so it required much more efforts (compat ioctl and syscalls).

Thanks,
Kirill
 
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