Re: [ANNOUNCE] second stable release of Linux-VServer

From: Herbert Poetzl
Date: Wed Dec 14 2005 - 22:32:33 EST


On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 06:40:24PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Rik van Riel wrote:
> >On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> >
> >>Well, as the OpenVZ folks announced their release on LKML
> >>I just decided to do similar for the Linux-VServer release,
> >>so please let me know if that is not considered appropriate.
> >
> >Since there is a legitimate (and very popular) use case for
> >virtuozzo / vserver functionality, I think it is a good
> >thing to get all the code out in the open.
> >
> >I really hope we will get something like BSD jail functionality
> >in the Linux kernel. It makes perfect sense for hosting
> >environments.
> >
> Like many needs there are lots of solutions, none of which are perfect,
> or at least without problems the competition says are important ;-) This
> is one more thing to study, but it seems as though there is not an
> overview of the various solutions for easy comparison.
>
> This list is probably incomplete:
> linuxjail - BSD jail is the goal
> VMware - I use this for BSD machines
> xen - the last I looked ran Linux, not Windows or BSD unpatched
> UML - run Linux nicely
> VServer - news to me

free: commercial:

Virtual Machine (Emulators/Simulators):
(allows for unmodified guest systems)

- Bochs - VMware
- QEMU - SoftPC
- Hercules - VirtualPC
- GXemul
- UAE

Para Virtualization (Hypervisor)
(requires modified guest kernels, without HW support)

- IBM Hypervisor - VMware ESX
- Xen - TRANGO
- UML

Kernel Isolation (Partitioning)
(does not support guest kernels at all)

- Linux-VServer - Virtuozzo
- FreeVPS
- OpenVZ
- linuxjails

best,
Herbert

PS: please add stuff where appropriate ...
(not considered to be a complete list)

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