OpenVZ on PPC and SPARC 31 October 2006 @ 05:27 pm
Kir Kolyshkin
k001
[openvz]		As you might already know, we have recently ported OpenVZ to PPC64 platform, and that was pretty easy.

Here is the news: we are now porting to SPARC, thanks to Jonathan Kinney, a data systems specialist from Washington, USA. It all started with his question which he posted to forum back in May 2006: “if a Sun Fire T2000 could run OpenVZ?”. The answer at that time was like “no, but if we could have access to that hardware, it is quite possible”.

A few months later, in October, Jonathan returned again to that forum thread and said that he has the hardware and is willing to assist in porting OpenVZ to it. Kirill Korotaev picked it up from there, and just a few minutes ago I heard from him that he now has the kernel, which boots and works. Apparently, the size of patch is just about 1500 lines.

What amazes me in this story is the true cooperation between OpenVZ users and developers for the benefit of the worldwide community.
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Alexandr Kanevskiy[info]lvader on October 31st, 2006 - 04:56 pm
I'm ready to be a beta tester for this kernel on Ultra 10 :)
Any estimates when it would be published ?
Kir Kolyshkin[info]k001 on October 31st, 2006 - 04:58 pm
Some time in November, I suppose :)
[info]kirillx on November 14th, 2006 - 04:52 pm
working sparc64 versions are in git already
feel free to report any problems.
Alexandr Kanevskiy[info]lvader on November 14th, 2006 - 08:15 pm
Re: working sparc64 versions are in git already
Good. I'll try to use it on weekend.
peter_lemenkov [lj.rossia.org][info]peter_lemenkov [lj.rossia.org] on October 31st, 2006 - 08:12 pm
Still waiting for PowerPC (not 64, but 32) version )