The can be significant performance gains in both memory reduction and
IO by using OpenVZ though. It just depends on your needs and
environment.

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Eric Kuhnke <[email protected]> wrote:
> Openvz is really more like a chroot jail. You can accomplish much better
> functionality and the ability to run a wider range of guest VMs with xen or
> kvm.
>
> Keep in mind with openvz all guest OS must run the same kernel as the host.
>
> Unless you need openvz for a hosting environment that will have hundreds of
> small VMs on a server with 128GB RAM?
>
> On Nov 11, 2015 3:58 PM, "Matt" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Anyone out there using Proxmox for virtualization?  Have been using if
>> for few years running Centos Openvz containers.  Like fact that Openvz
>> is light weight and gives very little performance penalty.  In Proxmox
>> 4.x they have introduced the ZFS file system which I think is a great
>> offering many features such as mirroring etc.  They have also switched
>> from Openvz to LXC for containers.  Anyone used LXC much?  Is it
>> stable?  Pros and cons vs Openvz?

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