Bar-metal ISO installer for OpenVZ with web-based management and full virtualization support 07 May 2008 @ 12:56 pm
xomxorp
xomxorp		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
I also had other wishes like integrated backup and restore, live-migration, central configuration management and integrated virtual appliances download. So I presented this last year to our development team – a few months later, we proudly presents the first release of our Proxmox Virtual Environment.

Now we have the virtualization platform for the enterprise, licensed under GNU GPLv2.

Proxmox VE is the only virtualization platform which can do all of the following on one physical host:
  • Container Virtualization (OpenVZ)
  • Full virtualization (KVM)
  • Para-virtualization (KVM)
We encourage everybody to test Proxmox VE and give feedback, for download and documentation please visit the Proxmox VE Wiki.

Feel free to get in contact with me directly - martin@proxmox.com.
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fun with polls and statistics 09 March 2007 @ 04:44 pm
Kir Kolyshkin
k001		At the end of last year, we conducted a poll on the openvz.org web site. For about 4 weeks the poll was online, and more than 1300 people voted. While it is offline now, you can still see the results here.

The question was: "Which virtualization solutions are you using, or plan to use", and the top three answers were: VMware (580 votes), Xen (504 votes) and OpenVZ (502 votes). Those are the big guys. The medium guys are: Linux-VServer (165 votes), Virtuozzo (145 votes) and QEmu (148 votes). All the others are below the 5 percent barrier.

The results are not shocking. VMware is the clear leader, Xen is a recognizable name in virtualization, and OpenVZ is high because it's OpenVZ site. QEmu is somewhat popular among Linux geeks, as well as Linux-VServer.

About the same time, a German Linux portal ran a poll similar to this. The only difference was that they allowed only a single answer, while our poll allowed a few. No, you don't have to know German to read its results. VMware accounts for 60% (perhaps because only a single option was allowed), Xen goes next with 15%, OpenVZ is number three with 7%. I'm glad to see we are among the top three.

The fun thing in that poll is something called "Virtual Server" is number four. Hmm...I find that name too generic -- it could be M*crosoft Virtual Server, or Linux-Vserver, or something else.

Finally, I think it's a fun thing to run a poll, so here's one another poll for you.

Poll #943152 containers vs. hypervisor
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Compare hypervisor and containers (OS-level) virtualization. Which one is more important to be incorporated in the mainstream (vanilla) Linux kernel?

View Answers

Both are important
1 (33.3%)

Containers is more important
2 (66.7%)

Hypervisor is more important
0 (0.0%)

Neither is important
0 (0.0%)

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