Control panels

This page contains links to different control panels for OpenVZ, written by third parties. If you know the project that's missing here, please add it.

Contents

Free software / Open source (in alphabetical order)

• fosvm (Free Open Source Virtual Machine manager): homepage | Uses php and bash scripts, monitors bandwidth, Version 0.02a. Last updated 2009-05-15.
• Proxmox Virtual Environment: Proxmox VE Wiki - including bare-metal ISO installer
• unxsVZ: [http:/openisp.net/openisp/unxsVZ] | Includes autonomic UBC adjusting and per container traffic graphs. Supports hot-spare clones and mount/umount conf file templates. Very active development. Last change to public svn code base June 20, 2009.
• Vtonf: homepage | According to the documentation only runs on CentOS 4.5 or higher. Marked as beta, but works quite well. Last change April 2008
• Webmin: homepage | OpenVZ plugin | Version 1.0, last updated 2006-02-07
• WebVZ: homepage Uses Ruby on Rails which makes it a poor choice for Debian, Ubuntu and other .deb style distros. In the comments section of http://www.howtoforge.com/install-webvz-2.0-on-debian-etch-to-administrate-openvz there is a suggestion of how to get this one running under Ubuntu Hardy. The authors like it.

Proprietary / non-free

• FluidVM: Home Page • Demo Videos • Screen shots
• VZ-Manager: homepage (German)
• vzAdmin: homepage (German)
• Aventurin{e}: homepage (English)
• VS-Admin: homepage (English)

Frozen projects

• VZAdmin: homepage seems not available now
• WVZ: homepage seems frozen
• New OpenVZ Web Based Control Panel by rsailor: Forum thread #230 seems not available now
• EasyVZ: screenshots | sf.net project page (little bit outdated, but working and free. Last update Feb 2007) (requires Unix/Linux)
• Mwamko: homepage Last activity May 2007
• RoboVZ: homepage Forum thread #2559 Lots of promises since announced in May 2007, nothing usable yet. Possibly GPL license. No activity in 2 years, calling it frozen.
• HyperVM: homepage - No longer being developed after the sole developer sadly committed suicide in June 09.

In development

• WIVZ/GIVZ: homepage Release scheduled for October 2008. Unknow license. Link is currently broken as of 6 April 2009. It's probably defunct.
• VS-Admin: homepage Beta testers wanted (19-06-2009)