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.

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. Requires 64bit Processor.
• slkvm: console scripts to handle vz virtualization in a two node cluster.
• unxsVZ OpenVZ Infrastructure Manager: unxsVZ Trac Wiki | 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.
• vpsAdmin homepage - GPLv3 license, PHP+MySQL+Bash, Multi-server & Multilingual support, vpsAdmin 1.0 released on January 19, 2010
• Webmin: homepage | OpenVZ plugin | Version 1.0, last updated 2006-02-07 (frozen?)
• 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

• VirtPanel homepage, Support for Xen and VMware in the future.
• Aventurin{e}: homepage (English)
• FluidVM: Home Page
• Panenthe: homepage (English) • Screen shots
• SolusVM homepage, Appears to be reasonably priced. Advertised as $10 per node.
• vcPanel :Home Page, The first centralized VPS control panel for managing VPS around the globe Demo
• VDSmanager for Linux :homepage (English)
• vePortal: homepage (English) • Screen shots -- Recently suffered security issues. Not recommended due to the way it issues commands via MySQL.
• vzAdmin: homepage (German)
• VZ-Manager: homepage (German)

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• EasyVZ: screenshots | sf.net project page (little bit outdated, but working and free.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 - Recently the 'consortium' attempting to work on HyperVM collapsed, rendering its future unknown.
• Vtonf: homepage | According to the documentation only runs on CentOS 4.5 or higher. Last change April 2008 - No longer supported. Does not work on CentOS 5+. Web page is no longer valid. Consider this one dead.
• WIVZ/GIVZ: homepage Release scheduled for October 2008 - never released. Unknown license.

In development

• VZWave homepage Website now shows an unavailable message.
• DTC-Xen homepage - Currently being ported to OpenVZ by its main developers.
• OpenVZ Web Panel homepage - In development, pre-release available. Requires Ruby on Rails