Charles N Wyble Journal

I discovered three major issues in the usage scenarios of OpenVZ in the enterprise market:

1. Installation takes time and needs Linux knowledge
2. The missing GUI management
3. And the inability to run unmodified guests like Windows on an OpenVZ host

I also had other wishes like integrated backup and restore, live-migration, central configuration management and integrated virtual appliances download. So I presented this last year to our development team – a few months later, we proudly presents the first release of our Proxmox Virtual Environment.

Now we have the virtualization platform for the enterprise, licensed under GNU GPLv2.

Proxmox VE is the only virtualization platform which can do all of the following on one physical host:

• Container Virtualization (OpenVZ)
• Full virtualization (KVM)
• Para-virtualization (KVM)

We encourage everybody to test Proxmox VE and give feedback, for download and documentation please visit the Proxmox VE Wiki.

Feel free to get in contact with me directly - martin@proxmox.com.

Linus has released 2.6.26-rc1 yesterday. Here rc1 means this is the first "release candidate" for 2.6.26, and the merge window is now closed, so for the next two months or so before final 2.6.26 release only bugfixes will be accepted.

And I just can't resist the temptation to post my new favorite image here, so you can enjoy it too:


Click to get the hi-res image and the scripts used to produce it.

The majority of these 299 changesets that made it to 2.6.26-rc1 is about network namespaces.