I think my interest in virtualization was really jump-started when I saw Kir Kolyshkin give a quick OpenVZ demo at SCALE 4X a couple of years ago.
That sounds rather fanboy-ish, but truthfully until that time my only experience with virtualization was with a ponderously slow VMWare client running Red Hat on a Window XP machine. Yick.
| In his demo, Kir really showed the audience the true potential of virtualization when it’s quick and easy to maintain. Since then, I have kept an eye on OpenVZ, but I was a bit remiss last week when I missed this announcement on their project blog made eight days ago. (Hey, I’ve been busy!) |
In it, Kir announced that they picked up where they left off on their work integrating OpenVZ into a SLES-based kernel and now they have a stable version of that kernel ready to go. Based on SLES10.
This is a good thing for all you SLES users out there (c’mon, you know who you are) and I recommend you give it a try if you’ve ever been at all curious about virtualizing your servers.