I have a server that I have inherited from someone who left our company and he built it with Debian 3.1 on the root server and all guest vservers. The kernel used was 2.6.8-vserver. I'm going to ask some dumb questions here because I'm mostly familiar with RedHat and Solaris, more than Debian. I have never personally installed a Debian vserver system from scratch. I want to build a duplicate of this system because the original system is having hardware problems and I need to recreate the system if it dies.
My question is this: If I install the latest release of Debian -- looks like 3.1r5 and use the latest vserver kernel (can't remember what I saw it at last), will the guests that were built on Deb 3.1 and 2.6.8-vserver kernel work okay? How I was hoping it would go is like this: I install the new base server with 3.1r5/newer vserver kernel based on vserver install documentation, and then restore /etc/vserver.conf, /etc/vservers and /home/vservers (where the guests reside). I'm worried that the guests were built on an older based kernel and it might cause problems? And also that my assumptions for restoring such a system are too simplistic. Thanks for any pointers. Kathy _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [email protected] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
