for further resources:

• http://deb.riseup.net/vserver/ (already mentioned by another commenter, but seconded here)
• http://www.section6.net/wiki/index.php/Running_Vservers_on_Debian

i think every howto should show how to test a vserver after installation, if only to give the new vserver user a warm fuzzy feeling.

• http://vserver.13thfloor.at/Stuff/SCRIPT/
• http://linux-vserver.org/TestScripts

i've backported the util-vserver package from etch to sarge to gain hashify support, a really easy way to conserve space in your vserver chroots with hardlinks.

i'm kind of appalled that a "debian" how-to doesn't support the debian way of building kernels (ie kernel-package, kernel-source, & kernel-patch-vserver) considering that's nearly half the document.

i don't mess with the stock kernels because i rather debian manage security updates. actually, i'm using ubuntu's 2.6.10 kernel from hoary as i need the ata pass-through support for smart on sata drives, but ubuntu also supports its packages for 18 months (which is hopefully longer than debian post-woody). kernel-patch-vserver in sarge includes a patch for 2.6.10 that applies to ubuntu's kernel source rather cleanly, but not perfectly. i've already tested ubuntu breezy's 2.6.12 with the kernel patch for 2.6.12 in etch's kernel-patch-vserver and that works too (with fewer patch rejects).