From: user@example.net   
      
   Aragorn wrote:   
   > On Tuesday 01 July 2008 21:10, someone who identifies as *J.O. Aho* wrote   
   > in /alt.os.linux.gentoo:/   
      
   >> Tried to play a bit with OpenVZ yesterday, the latest kernel for that is   
   >> 2.6.24, must be some regression patch there or something, as the OpenVZ   
   >> kernel didn't recognize my sata, while the gentoo boot cd seemed to work   
   >> (if I don't remember it wrong, it too used 2.6.24), but reading from the   
   >> wiki it seems they will release a new OpenVZ kernel as soon as 2.6.26   
   >> has been released, sadly it won't give me direct access to the graphics   
   >> cards in a container.   
   >   
   > Isn't it possible to hide the graphics card PCI address from the host kernel   
   > at boot time?   
      
   I have to say I don't know too much about OpenVZ to give a proper answer   
   on that, but I watched (listened half hearted) to an one hour long   
   presentation about OpenVZ by one of the devels and he mentioned   
   something about you can't load kernel modules inside the container, and   
   for getting nVidia (closed source driver) to work, you need to use the   
   kernel module, but at the same time he told that there was people who   
   had succeeded to dedicate a NIC to a container, so maybe it's possible   
   to make things work in a OpenVZ container in the same manner as in Xen,   
   but I would guess that would require some work on the OpenVZ code.   
      
      
   >> I guess all I can try is to order that opensolaris cds/dvd and see what   
   >> happens, if it works or not.   
   >   
   > Well, I'd be interested in learning about your progress there, as there is a   
   > (very slim) chance that I too would be picking OpenSolaris for the /dom0,/   
   > provided that it even supports all my hardware, which I have explicitly   
   > gathered with the intention of using GNU/Linux only.   
      
   Yes, I had the same intention too, until it turned out that I couldn't   
   use my SATA drives, I may be able to use IDE drives, but at the moment   
   I'm in a moment 22 catch, where I can't use my IDE to the new machine   
   until I copied it over to the new machines SATA, but I can't do that   
   until I have the new machine up and running, so it can replace the old   
   machine (can't shrink the JFS on the LVM).   
      
   If I could get things work from IDE, then I would need to set up one   
   extra domU, to share the SATA disks content over NFS, which I had   
   thought i would do from the dom0.   
      
   if the opensolaris would work, I don't expect it to be much worked on,   
   all I would do would be to keep it up and running, the idea is that no   
   one would access the dom0 except physically sitting in front of the   
   machine, so wouldn't be too worried over exploits.   
      
      
      
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