Howto/FAQ project vserver

One big document

1: contributions

• 1.1: documentation
  Is there other documentation available ?
  
• 1.2: kernel
  A patch to have ext3 in the 2.4.13-ctx-3 kernel
  Are there any patches against the -ac kernel versions (Alan Cox dev tree)
  Is it working on kernel 2.2
  

2: File-systems

• 2.1: Access
  
  • 2.1.1: Sharing
    Is it possible to share one area of a file system between vservers
    

3: general

• 3.1: administration
  Changing the host-name or the IP of a vserver
  How do I know in which security context process N is running
  Is it possible to have a different time zone for one vserver
  Is it possible to move a vserver from one physical server to another
  Is it possible to run vservers based on different distro on ?
  Is it possible to see processes in other vservers
  May I rename a vserver ?
  
  • 3.1.1: unification
    A unified vserver seems as big as the reference, how come ?
    How to update 10 unified vservers and keep them unified ?
    Is it possible to move a unified vserver without the reference vserver ?
    Is it possible to use hard links between vservers or the root server
    
• 3.2: misc
  Execution of commands with wild-cards
  How does this differs from the BSD jail system call
  How many vservers may run at once ?
  What about performance
  
• 3.3: starting
  Is it possible to execute some tasks when a vserver is started
  

4: issues

• 4.1: applications
  bind does not work in a vserver (capset failed)
  Using DHCP server in a vserver
  

5: security

• 5.1: misc
  Vservers can write to /dev/random, is this a problem ?
  
• 5.2: principles
  Is a chroot() environment really unbreakable