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OpenVZ Pushing for Linux Kernel Inclusion

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the affront-to-real-partitions-everywhere dept.

RomanianClimber writes to tell us News.com is reporting that SWSoft is trying to get OpenVZ into the Linux kernel. OpenVZ is an operating system level server virtualization solution, built on Linux. From the article: "In this, it has a major ally: Red Hat, the top seller of the open-source operating system, which plans to add the software to its free Fedora version of Linux for enthusiasts. The companies' move to make OpenVZ partitioning standard in Linux is timely, said Pund-IT analyst Charles King."

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  1. That's the beauty of OSS by TheAxeMaster · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you want something in there, then by god, put it in there. There's no huge patchwork system that affects everyone using linux when one company wants to change the underlying functioning. They can do it, and sell it if they can, while the rest of us can go happily on our way not using it.

  2. IP Rights secure on this? by blastard · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Has there been a serious investigation of potential patent claims against OpenVZ. This looks like a potentially hazardous inclusion.

    If due diligence has been done, and no problems on the horizon, then that's great. Just would hate to have something like this included and have it open up another SCO-like situation. Recognizing that one is Copyright based, and the other would probably be Patent, and in particular US patent based.

  3. Xen by chabotc · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Wasn't redhat doing a major Xen push too? Fedora Core 5 will include xen host and guest kernels plus xen3, and from what i heard their putting a major effort into getting that usable too.

    Never bet on a single horse i guess?

    Or am i missing something and are OpenVZ and Xen very different products? (doesn't sound like it)

    Upside of Xen seems to be the ability to run *bsd and other OS's in guest domains too, no mention of this in OpenVZ

  4. Galaxy by msbsod · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Nice to see some progress in the Linux arena. But neither the quoted article nor the OpenVZ web site list too many alternative solutions. Here is one from another world (non-unix): OpenVMS Galaxy by Digital (now HP). Galaxy is part of OpenVMS, since more than half a decade.

    http://h71000.www7.hp.com/wizard/wiz_3191.html (check the date - 1999!)
    http://www.s-and-b.ru/syshlp/vms_html/6512/6512pro .html (an early online documentation, hosted by on a non-Digital/HP system)
    http://h71000.www7.hp.com/availability/index.html (Lots of information about High Availability/Disaster Tolerance)

    "All the world's a stage" or was it "All the galaxy's a stage?"
    http://scifi.about.com/library/weekly/aa022800b.ht m

  5. Re:This is an idea I like by aevans · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You don't want a VPS.... but your hosting provider does, especially now that off the shelf hardware is so fast that under full load, if you divide the CPU by 10 or even 100 under lighter loads, your'e still I/O and network bound.

  6. Re:Why is this needed? by DShard · · Score: 4, Interesting

    1: hans?

    2: Not just pay for but work with. This is the reason Xen has never really gotten into vanilla, even though it is supported directly by IBM, Intel and AMD.