History

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Here we list major project milestones.

1999

  • Nov 1999: Alexander Tormasov visited Singapore and proposed a new direction to Sergey Beloussov: container virtualization. He formulated three main components: containers as a set of processes with namespace isolation, file system to share code/ram and isolation in resources.

  • Indeed it was 1999 when our engineers started adding bits and pieces of containers technology to Linux kernel 2.2. Well, not exactly "containers", but rather "virtual environments" at that time -- as it often happens with new technologies, the terminology was different (the term "container" was coined by Sun only five years later, in 2004).

    —Kir Kolyshkin, http://openvz.livejournal.com/49158.html

2000

  • Feb 2000: office at MIPT is established, 5 people started working on the first mockup version of Virtuozzo (namespaces, isolation, vzfs).
  • Jul 2000: limited public beta testing: two public servers (Virtuozzo 0.1 and control panels), 5000 VEs during summer
  • Sep 2000: Andrey Savochkin from MSU started working on User Beancounters.

2001

  • Dec 2001: Virtuozzo for Windows project started

2002

  • Jan 2002: SWsoft (now known as Odin) initially released a product for Linux named Virtuozzo[1]
  • Feb 2002: first clients in Silicon Valley

2004

  • Dec 2004: Initial release of Virtuozzo for Windows [2]

2005

  • 2005: SWsoft created the OpenVZ Project to release the core of Virtuozzo under GNU GPL. [3]
  • 2005: SWsoft acquired a hosting/development company "Express" with their own containers for FreeBSD (it was later dropped due to small number of clients).

2006

  • Jan 2006: Rebase to kernel 2.6.15[4]
  • Apr 2006: Port to Fedora Core 5 kernel[5]
  • Aug 2006: OpenVZ is available in Debian Linux [6]
  • Aug 2006: Rebase to RHEL 4 kernel [7]
  • Oct 2006: Port to SPARC[8] and PPC[9][10]
  • Nov 2006: Port to 2.6.18 kernel [11]
  • Nov 2006: OpenVZ adds live migration capability [12]

2007

  • Mar 2007: Port to RHEL5 kernel[13]
  • Mar 2007: Port to 2.6.20 kernel[14]
  • May 2007: Knoppix-based OpenVZ Live CD[15]
  • Sep 2007: CentOS-based OpenVZ Live CD[16]

2008

  • Jan 2008: Templates for Ubuntu 7.10[17]
  • Apr 2008: Rebase to kernel 2.6.25[18]
  • Oct 2008: Port to ARM [19].

2009

  • Aug 2009: Parallels company is in Top 10 Linux kernel contributors with their patches for Linux containers. Our contributions to the kernel at that time was PID, IPC, and network namespaces, with the last one being the biggest.[20]

2011

  • Jul 2011: Pavel Emelyanov sent initial RFC and code[21]. The idea of CRIU of course came up earlier when we figured we (or anyone else, for that matter) can't possibly merge in-kernel checkpoint/restore. Re-implementing it in userspace looked crazy for everyone including me, and Andrew Morton's and Linus Torvalds' initial reaction was similar ("some crazy russians").
  • Sep 2011: Cyrill Gorcunov made [22] first commit to CRIU project

2012

2013

  • May 2013: OpenVZ maintenance partnership [24]

2014

  • Dec 2014: Parallels announced merging OpenVZ and Parallels Cloud Server into single common open source codebase[25]

2015

  • Apr 2015: Source code of kernel 3.10 was published and development process become open[26].

References

  1. ↑ SWsoft Releases Virtuozzo 2.0, Bringing Mainframe-Inspired Functionality to Intel-Based Servers
  2. ↑ SWsoft Announces Virtuozzo for Windows Controlled Release
  3. ↑ SWsoft offers free, open source version of Virtuozzo
  4. ↑ OpenVZ Project Releases Beta for Latest Linux Kernel
  5. ↑ OpenVZ Project Releases Software to Support Fedora Core 5
  6. ↑ Debian Linux Adopts OpenVZ Virtualization Software
  7. ↑ OpenVZ for RHEL4
  8. ↑ Open Source Virtualization for Sun UltraSPARC T1
  9. ↑ OpenVZ Virtualization Software Available for Power Processors
  10. ↑ OpenVZ on PPC and SPARC
  11. ↑ http://lwn.net/Articles/207716/
  12. ↑ OpenVZ adds live migration capability
  13. ↑ OpenVZ software for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  14. ↑ OpenVZ Virtualization for Latest Linux Kernel
  15. ↑ OpenVZ Live CD
  16. ↑ OpenVZ CentOS Live CD
  17. ↑ OpenVZ Virtual Appliance for Ubuntu
  18. ↑ 2.6.25 is out; memory controller and network namespaces are in
  19. ↑ OpenVZ ported to ARM (Gumstix Overo)
  20. ↑ Linux Kernel Development Report, Aug 2009 update
  21. ↑ Checkpoint/restore mostly in the userspace
  22. ↑ First commit to CRIU (Checkpoint and Restore in Userspace)
  23. ↑ First CRIU public release
  24. ↑ Announcing the OpenVZ Maintenance Partnership
  25. ↑ OpenVZ past and future
  26. ↑ Odin published source code of kernel 3.10

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