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OpenVZ kernel too old for curl - is this commonplace?
I ordered a OpenVZ node from hostsailor and I am unable to install curl due to the host node kernel being "too old, must upgrade". How common is this? I wasn't expecting this old of a kernel.
Linux eu 2.6.32 -042stab138.1
https://wiki.openvz.org/Download/kernel
says Latest version is 042stab145.3.
Still I don't think OpenVZ has a newer than kernel version 3.2 available on stable?
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Were the eye rape ads and the bandwidth issues not enough for you to avoid them?
I'm not familiar with those issues?
I just needed a dirt cheap monitoring node somewhere < $10/yr and they had a sale for $6.
It appears that they're still using OpenVZ-6, which is really to be avoided in 2021 if one has the choice. (No wonder why it was so cheap.)
I agree. I wasn't expecting a 2015 (?) kernel when version 4.0 exist. Waiting to hear back from them if they are willing to migrate me to a node with a different infrastructure (they did say they are moving to "OpenVZ 7" in the next month) but alas I need curl for this to work.
If they upgrade to 7, you get upgraded to 3.x meanwhile 5.x is the new shit.
May get a KVM or LXC/D instead.
That kernel was released in 2019. Bear in mind that the CentOS (and by extension) OpenVZ kernels were based on the older 2.6.32 kernel, with fixes and some features backported -- although it looks like a ~2015 kernel, it's not.
However, it's end of life - has been for well over a year - so it's very surprising to see a well known host activating new orders on it in 2021. If they're in the process of migrating, why activate new orders on the old systems?
2.6.32 was originally released back in 2009. There's a 2012 look-back post from a kernel dev who used to maintain 2.6.32 here: https://linuxfoundation.org/blog/the-2-6-32-linux-kernel/ 'Enterprise' distros like RHEL backported some critical bugfixes and features from newer kernel versions, but on the whole, it's missing a lot of features that are required by newer software. For example, Debian Buster won't even run on it, as its glibc version requires kernel 3.10 at least.
If you want to use a 2.6.32 kernel, you're going to have to use an older distro with older software.
OpenVZ6 (which uses 2.6.32) is no longer supported.
OpenVZ7 uses a 3.10 kernel, which is still old but not quite as old, and a lot of software still runs fine on it.
If you want to run modern software, I'd highly recommend a KVM VPS. But failing that, OpenVZ7 is okay too.
boycott all openvz. it's not fit to be sell in 2021.
This article is an interesting read. Thank you.
I may ditch this OVZ node here's the perf.
I still don't understand how/why you can't install curl on your node. Just install an older version.
What am I missing, here? I don't know wtf he is even quoting. If "apt get curl" doesn't work, that's it, hands up in the air? Nobody can install a .deb or build from source and just get past this issue in like 5 minutes?
The whole thing about linux (years ago) was being able to run these old versions because the source is open and available.
Geekbench5 won't run on less than 512MB RAM. You can skip it in the future to prevent OOM crashes and save the benchmark runtime.
what os
I still have a ovz box and with debain7 and can apt-get install curl