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Giving OpenVZ a try
May 11, 2007

Linux virtualization is hotter than hot. VMware is offering better native Linux virtualization support; the Linux kernel, starting with 2.6.20, is incorporating KVM virtualization; Red Hat is introducing the idea of Intel vPro-based virtual appliances; and, not to be left out...

...OpenVZ is making its virtualization software available on a Knoppix 5.1.1 bootable live CD.

With this disc, users can test drive the OpenVZ software without changes to their computer or installing anything on their hard disk. The OpenVZ software for the Knoppix 5.1.1 Linux distribution can be downloaded at the community's download site.

"This is the first time we've been able to offer our open source OS virtualization in this format, which provides users a risk-free way to test OpenVZ, along with the Knoppix distribution," said Kir Kolyshkin, the OpenVZ project's manager, in a statement. "Knoppix is very popular with hobbyists and Linux enthusiasts who can now try our open-source virtualization software, which is in keeping with our objective to promote OS virtualization."

Knoppix is a bootable live CD Linux. It includes a representative collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk. It can be used on any x86 system and there is no need to have a Linux distribution installed.

Would-be users can access instructions from the OpenVZ wiki. The site also serves as a forum to gain and share knowledge about OpenVZ and includes documentation and a knowledge base.

Supported by SWsoft, the OpenVZ project serves the needs of community developers and users. SWsoft's uses the open-source OpenVZ as the basis for its commercial Virtuozzo virtualization software product.

Kolyshkin is also working on getting OpenVZ into the Linux kernel. In a recent blog posting, Kolyshkin wrote, "I was able to talk with Andrew Morton (a kernel hacker, the right hand of Linus Torvalds) and was encouraged about the prospect of OS virtualization and OpenVZ in the Linux kernel. That is something we would really like to see and have been working towards."

OpenVZ has already been adopted into Debian, the Power processor family, and Novell is adding Virtuozzo to its SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 software line up.


-- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols



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