Long time no post, well, i’m not that kind of person who spends his time with writing, but as this is a major milestone in vserver development, i thought to share some facts and ideas…
First of all sys-kernel/vserver-sources-2.0 should hit the mirrors in some hours, and wrt new archs supported in the 2.0 series i opened a bug for arch testers as well, so we get the appropriate keywords.
Some days ago i also created the vserver herd which consists of phreak (who has just been recruited, congrats btw!) and myself atm. If you want to help out, just drop a note in #gentoo-vserver or email vserver-devs@gentoo.org – currently the util-vserver package would need some love wrt start/stop a vserver, as this procedure is kinda borked in 205-208…
As of util-vserver-0.30.208-r1 a new script called vserver-new will be shipped, which automagically creates vservers from a stage3 tarball or just clones an existing one.
Since the util-vserver package contains many legacy wrappers and an imo completely borked configuration layout I started to write new tools and also a libvserver, a wrapper around the vserver syscalls (check the libvserver wiki). If you’re interested in tool development or if you have any wishes/suggestions/whatever, just drop a note.
Also the vserver-howto will get some love the next days, since it definitely needs some tweaking wrt latest development!
If you have any questions about vserver feel free to conteact me via mail or on irc
Cheers!