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Running vservers on a ubuntu server

Since I didn't see anything outlining this.

My setup:

Kernel config

Since I needed to use a 2.6.x kernel, I needed the 1.9.x stream of vserver patches.

apt-get install linux-source-2.6.11
cd /usr/src
tar xjvf linux-source-2.6.11.tar.bz2
cd linux-source-2.6.11
patch -p1 < patch.2.6.11.5-vs1.9.5.diff
vi Makefile
fix the EXTRAVERSION to be -vs1.9.5
vi fs/super.c
add: to just before #include <asm/uaccess.h>:
  #include <linux/devpts_fs.h>
  #include <linux/proc_fs.h>
vi fs/file_table.c
add: to the end of the #includes
  #include <linux/vs_limit.h>
  #include <linux/vs_context.h>
cp /boot/config-2.6.11-whatever .config
make oldconfig
say Y to:
  CONFIG_VSERVER_LEGACY
  CONFIG_VSERVER_LEGACYNET
  CONFIG_VSERVER_PROC_SECURE
  CONFIG_INOXID_UGID24
say N to:
  CONFIG_VSERVER_DEBUG
make-kpkg --initrd binary
cd ..
dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.11-vs1.9.5*.deb
dpkg -i linux-headers-2.6.11-vs1.9.5*.deb

I will likely make a kernel patch for this specifically and submit it to the ubuntu crew. In the mean time, you will need to resolve the rejected patch hunks. There is also a rejected hunk in fs/attr.c, but it seems that the function being patched has already been removed by ubuntu patches.

At this point, rebooting into the new kernel would be in order

util-vserver install

The version of util-vserver that is currently in hoary/universe is too old to work with 1.9.5. You will need the alpha version that is on the 1.9.5 release page (0.30.204).

cd /usr/src
apt-get source util-vserver
tar xzvf util-vserver-0.30.204.tar.gz
cp -pr util-vserver-0.30/debian util-vserver-0.30.204/debian
cd util-vserver-0.30.204
vi debian/rules
  comment out line 81 (that does a mv from /usr/sbin) as it isn't needed
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
cd ..
dpkg -i util-vserver-0.30.204*.deb

Once again, I'll look into making a proper .deb for submission later.

System changes for this to work

vi /etc/sysctl.conf
add: 
kernel.vshelper = "/usr/lib/util-vserver/vshelper"

echo "/usr/lib/util-vserver/vshelper" >/proc/sys/kernel/vshelper

vi /etc/modules
add (I put it at the top):
capability

modprobe capability

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