No, no, please not OpenVZ. It is certainly not for beginners. Better use VServer instead. I used both, first OpenVZ (but was never really happy with it) and then VServer.
There are number of benefits of VServer over OpenVZ: * GPL License * Better kernel support: OpenVZ kernel 2.6.32 become available only recently. VServer supported 2.6.32 for a while - much much longer. OpenVZ's adoption of new kernels is quite slow - perhaps just too slow... * less intrusive: the Linux-VServer patch against 2.6.36 is 753K the OpenVZ patch for 2.6.36 does not exist; the patch for 2.6.32 (seems to be the latest) 4.9M note that the features are roughly the same * more performant: Linux-VServer has no measureable overhead for network isolation and allows the full performance (OpenVZ report 1-3% overhead, not verified) * better integrated: Linux-VServer is around for 10 years now and supports all Linux platforms and architectures (OpenVZ supports only 6 and mainly RH(EL)) * Easier. Regards, Onlyjob. On 11 January 2011 14:22, Nick Andrew <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 08:57:14PM +1100, david wrote: >> What virtualisation solutions would people suggest? > > OpenVZ ... > > - lightweight > - flexible resource limits > - linux based (i.e. containers and process isolation, not machine emulation) > - uses host filesystem, which helps with > - dynamic resizeable rootfs > - minimal functional installs from around 300 megs on disk > - can live-migrate across hosts with some constraints > - can create, install and start a new VM in under 1 minute. > > Nick. > -- > PGP Key ID = 0x418487E7 http://www.nick-andrew.net/ > PGP Key fingerprint = B3ED 6894 8E49 1770 C24A 67E3 6266 6EB9 4184 87E7 > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
