[lxc-devel] Recomended Kernel Version LT vs ML

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting Leon Waldman (le.waldman at gmail.com):
> Sorry for repost it here, but looks like the lxc-user list doesn't have 
> the same rate of view :P
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> We are planning to deploy LXC in production using CentOS 6.3.
> 
> The problem is that it ships with kernel 2.6.32-279 per default, and 
> AFAIK this is a not recommended version to use with LXC.
> 
> Now, the issue is... The kernel Long Term version from EPEL is the 3.0 
> version... the Main Line is currently on 3.7 but it's changing the major 
> version every 6 weeks.
> 
> 
> It would worth the testing overhead of keeping changing the kernel major 
> version every 6 weeks to have a bigger then 3.0 running or the 3.0 
> version is enough feature complete to use on a production environment?

With 3.0, I think you'll only miss user namespaces (not 100% complete
anyway) and the very latest setns stuff which just hit 3.8.