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Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 10:34:19 +0200
From: Zenny <garbytrash@...il.com>
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: openvz kernel

On 5/14/13, gremlin@...mlin.ru <gremlin@...mlin.ru> wrote:
> On 09-May-2013 11:51:45 +0400, Solar Designer wrote:
>
>  > I recommend staying with our RHEL5'ish kernels for now, but if
>  > you like to experiment, you may try OpenVZ's RHEL6'ish kernels
>  > as well.
>
> People who wish to try RHEL6-style OVZ kernels may try this one:
>
> ftp://gremlin.people.openwall.com/pub/linux/Owl/kernel/kernel-2.6.32-ovz042stab065.3.g1.src.rpm
> (size: 88 115 306 bytes, MD5 sum: 5c1eac15b2101836897cb147edb2e6b6)
>
> It works on most of my servers just fine. Differences from "mainstream"
> are:
>
> 0. The kernel is mostly monolythic (but modules support is enabled).
> 1. Removed "magic /dev/cdrom" together with legacy IDE support, as I
> use SCSI layer instead (with root=/dev/sr0 for CD boot).
> 2. Fixed build of lxdialog (see kernel-owl-lxdialog.diff).

Thanks for the pointer.

>
>  > Installing them may be a bit tricky because they use initrd in
>  > their builds and we don't - at least you'd need to add mkinitrd
>  > first.
>
> Building own kernel is simple and doesn't require using initrd.
>

@ Alexey: Would love to know a bit more about your approach of
building kernel without initrd. Thanks!

>
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> Alexey V. Vissarionov aka Gremlin from Kremlin <gremlin ПРИ gremlin ТЧК ru>
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