Got a link for Proxmox VE Wiki ?

sorry, I used firefox 3 to post to the blog and it seems that the livejournal editor does not work with firefox 3.

I corrected the posting with ie7 - so you can now use the links.
http://pve.proxmox.com

BTW "Minimum 1024 GB RAM" sounds a bit ahead of time. :)

"15rpm SAS" probably is the three-orders-of-magnitude compensation, gotta 15kRPM SAS drives for another ALT Linux OpenVZ over here.

Otherwise, installation instructions seem pretty good; hope to find some time to play with downloaded ISO on the stand.

Thanks for discovering, working, and publishing :-)

uuups, I corrected the value in our wiki :-)
thanks,
br, martin

where is "download" link? i would like to give it a shot

I tried it already and loving it!
Feels very solid.

I discovered three major issues in the usage scenarios of OpenVZ in the enterprise market:

1. Installation takes time and needs Linux knowledge
2. The missing GUI management
3. And the inability to run unmodified guests like Windows on an OpenVZ host

Yep. Do you know anything about Parallels commercial products?

yes, I know Parallels commercial products, whats the question?

yes, I know Parallels commercial products, whats the question?

Presumably that you've discovered an america :D

> Proxmox VE is the only virtualization platform
As usual with such strong opinions, you are wrong.

ALT Linux has been doing OpenVZ for years, last year it was included in a stable server release (supported for 3 years). And we do KVM too. And Xen for those stuck with lots of older hardware. Yeah, we already dropped VServer which was the virtualization means in ALT Linux 2.4 back in 2004.

Would you please at least google things next time not to remind me of Fedora (Ubuntu, Microsoft...) announcements *please*? ;-)

sorry if I missed anything but I cannot find any info on http://www.altlinux.com/ concerning the installation and management of OpenVZ and KVM virtual machines - which management tool do alt-linux have?

That one is stale (afaih being reworked) -- current information is available on www.altlinux.ru; ISO available here; KVM is available in unstable and ALT Linux 4.1 (recently branched).

Management system is built upon Alterator, I've recently described it briefly in ltsp-developer@. Judging from the description, you have done considerably more even on OpenVZ management front alone (hence my interest and nitpicking :), and KVM is pretty new here although my colleague is actively maintaining the packages and using it.

Most information regarding ALT Linux is really available only in Russian... there are way more interesting infrastructure bits and pieces which aren't widely known for that reason.

PVE management also brings OpenVZ resource Management to KVM, i.e. you can limit CPU resources for KVM in an OpenVZ compatible way. So both systems can run parallel. On all existing systems I know KVM can eat up all resources, which in effect disable resasonable resource control.

1. Does Promox conflict with command-line (and so automated) creation of containers?
2. Does Promox support reservation of openvz VEIDs to prevent conflicts?
3. Any chance of a non-iso download?

ad 1: commandline is still possible, but you need to adapt a view things, to discuss this, is suggest you post our http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Mailing_Lists

ad 2: yes

ad 3: what do you need? see also ftp://pve.proxmox.com/

br, martin

1. The advantage of using a gui for me would be lost if the code presumes that the commandline will not be used. I think a lot of people would need this, but I will check the link you gave.

3. With a virtual appliance I can't see what it's doing. I need the code for the web gui, the backend stuff, and information on how it all fits together.

ad 1: Proxmox VE is not only a gui. it also takes care about the resource management between guest (KVM and OpenVZ) that this can co-exists on one host. and do not forget the integrated backup solution (based on vzdump).

working on the commandline is possible, but the gui makes for many people thing easier.

ad 2: please post this to http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Mailing_Lists