It's ironic to see the claim of a free open source virtualization platform.
I was doing a quick latency comparison using a command like: time ssh $user@$host w (with ssh key login) In my experience that typically takes 125-150 ms for OVZ, 250-300 ms for LXC, and 300-500 ms for QEMU/KVM. Joe On Sat, Oct 11, 2025 at 4:07 AM jehan Procaccia < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, exactly same story here, long time user of openVZ , even subscribe to > few Virtuozzo licences (VHS) to support the project > > we've been waiting for ovz9 to no avail, nowdays that there's a RHEL 10, > there might be an interest for ovz 10 ! > > anyway, we've moved to Proxmox, using LXC container when possible, that > works quite fine, I didn't notice yet a 2 times faster result from > PMX/LCX in regards to openVZ CT, but didn't took the time to bench . > > it's indeed a shame, while Virtuozzo still claim : > > *OpenVZ <https://openvz.org/> is a free, open-source virtualization > solution available under GNU GPL. OpenVZ is the base for Virtuozzo Hybrid > Server, the commercial solution that builds on OpenVZ and offers additional > benefits to customers.* > > cf : > https://docs.virtuozzo.com/virtuozzo_hybrid_server_7_users_guide/learning-basics/vhs-vs-openvz.html > > jehan. > On 07/10/2025 18:01, jjs - mainphrame wrote: > > Hi all, > > I was an openvz and virtuozzo user and admin since around 2011 or so. > Since the company ended their support for OVZ, I've reluctantly migrated > almost everything to proxmox. > > I still have containers on two OVZ VMs on Proxmox, but I'm about to > migrate their functionality away and shut down the OVZ VMs for good. > > I did some preparatory testing and couldn't help but notice that the OVZ > CTs are still much snappier than KVM VMs or LXC containers. Even with OVZ > running in a VM, the network response time on the OVZ container s is about > 3 times faster than that of a KVM VM, and over twice as fast as an LXC > container. > > A shame, really. This was the best virtualization platform. But life goes > on. > > I'd be curious if there was any hope for OpenVZ down the road, or what > alternatives have been chosen in its place. > > Joe > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing > [email protected]https://lists.openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users > >
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