OpenVZ virtual appliance for Ubuntu

 

OpenVZ Project Makes Available Its Virtual Appliance Software for Ubuntu

 

Gives Users Ability to Quickly Create Multiple Ubuntu "Images"

 

HERNDON, Va., January 10, 2007 -- The OpenVZ project released today virtual
appliance software for Ubuntu giving users the ability to run the popular
Ubuntu 7.10 distribution in a Linux container. The software template can be
downloaded at the OpenVZ website, http://openvz.org/download/template/cache.

 

"Ubuntu is by far the fastest growing Linux distribution," said Kir
Kolyshkin, manager of the OpenVZ project. "We wanted to give our users a
fast, easy way to deploy Ubuntu in a virtualized environment."

 

Users simply download a file and then can use OpenVZ software to create a
virtual server running Ubuntu 7.10 in about one minute.

 

"This combination of open source technologies enables someone new to Ubuntu
a really easy way to get up and running, while current users have
alternative method of running Ubuntu with negligible -- if any -- impact on
their system resources," said Malcolm Yates, ISV Alliances Manager  at
Canonical, the commercial sponsor of the Ubuntu project.

 

The OpenVZ project freely distributes and offers support to its users,
promoting operating system virtualization through a collaborative, community
effort. Supported by SWsoft, the OpenVZ project serves the needs of the
community developers, testers, documentation experts, and other technology
enthusiasts who wish to participate in and accelerate the technology
development process. OpenVZ is open source software that is used as the
basis for the SWsoft Virtuozzo virtualization software product.

 

Since going into full production late in 2005, the OpenVZ project has been
very active with the user community with more than 25,000 message posts on
its support Forum. The OpenVZ website attracts tens of thousands of visitors
each month as more businesses and individuals explore and contribute to the
leading open source operating system virtualization project.

 

About OpenVZ

OpenVZ is operating system server virtualization software technology, built
on Linux, which creates multiple isolated, secure virtual environments on a
single physical server - enabling greater server utilization and superior
availability with fewer performance penalties. The virtual servers ensure
that applications do not conflict and can be re-booted independently.

 

With the power of today's processors, hardware is often under utilized. With
virtualization technology, the server can effectively be split into many
small ones, each running its tasks so that the whole server is utilized more
efficiently.

 

OpenVZ software can be used to help consolidate servers and increase server
utilization rates, or for creating "sandboxes" for test and development, or
when sharing resources so that every user can have root access while being
kept isolated from each other.

 

The OpenVZ software comes with user tools that help automate management of
virtual servers. With its unique architecture that uses a single operating
system instance, the virtual servers perform and execute like independent
servers with their own memory, configuration files, users and applications.
Each can be re-booted independently. Using template-based application
deployment provides a simple way to get new virtual servers up and running
in minutes and OpenVZ can run several times more virtual servers per CPU
than other virtualization technologies. Also, the OpenVZ project maintains a
blog site discussing virtualization technology, which can be accessed here,
http://blog.openvz.org <http://blog.openvz.org/> .

 

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