I discovered three major issues in the usage scenarios of OpenVZ in the enterprise market:
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:
Feel free to get in contact with me directly - martin@proxmox.com.
- Installation takes time and needs Linux knowledge
- The missing GUI management
- And the inability to run unmodified guests like Windows on an OpenVZ host
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)
Feel free to get in contact with me directly - martin@proxmox.com.


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I corrected the posting with ie7 - so you can now use the links.
http://pve.proxmox.com
"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 :-)
thanks,
br, martin
Feels very solid.
Yep. Do you know anything about Parallels commercial products?
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*? ;-)
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.
2. Does Promox support reservation of openvz VEIDs to prevent conflicts?
3. Any chance of a non-iso download?
ad 2: yes
ad 3: what do you need? see also ftp://pve.proxmox.com/
br, martin
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.
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
Very nice project ! Will surely give it a try but...
ad 3: ... I'd love to make standard Debian installs then configure a debian repo for Promox to install it.
Congrats for the great work already done and, please, keep on !
Bests
Jé
what a great tool, I was looking for something like this
My congratulations
Greetings
Also if you want this product to have even a remote chance at success support architectures other than amd64, all my testing servers are i686 so I can't even test your product. I don't have the resources to deploy this on one of the newer 64 bit machines.
32-bit architecture is not suited for virtualization servers, too many limitations.
br, martin