operating system-level virtualization Last modified: Tuesday, December 19, 2006
More commonly called OS-level virtualization. A type of server virtualization technology which works at the OS layer. The physical server and single instance of the operating system is virtualized into multiple isolated partitions, where each partition replicates a real server. The OS kernel will run a single operating system and provide that operating system functionality to each of the partitions. Not to be confused with operating system virtualization.
KernelTrap Interviews Andrey Savochkin - A Lead Developer on OpenVZ KernelTrap.org offers an interesting interview with Andrey Savochkin, a lead developer of the kernel portion of OpenVZ, an operating system-level server virtualization solution. Mandriva First Linux to Include Operating System-Level Virtualization Technology OpenVZ project today announced that the OpenVZ operating system virtualization software will be included as part of the Mandriva Corporate Server 4.0.

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