FreeVPS
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FreeVPS is a GPL-licensed virtualization patch for the Linux kernel developed by Positive Software Corporation. It was originally a fork of Linux-VServer.
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[edit] Description
FreeVPS is an open source software product that allows the partitioning of a single server into relatively isolated Virtual Private Servers (VPSs) using operating system-level virtualization.
Each VPS has:
- Complete Root Access
- Own hostname
- Full-Featured System Administration as of a Physical Server
- Complete isolated namespaces for each VPS
- Independence from underlying hardware; virtual servers can be easily moved to another physical server
- Networking management
- IP addresses management
- Subnets management
- Virtual network interfaces management
- Up to 255 virtual network interfaces/interface aliases
- Interfaces bandwidth/speed limitation
- Capabilities management
- Devices management
- Various additional flags for advanced VPS management
- Limitable Resource Consumption
- Disk Limit
- Memory Limit
- Virtual Memory Limit
- SWAP
- Traffic accounting
- Process Limit
- File Limit
- TCP Socket Limit
- CPU Hard Limit
- CPU Guaranteed Limit
- Shared Administrative Tasks
- Pre-generated batch installation of RPMs (called templates) for the following operating systems
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES/WS release 4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES/WS release 3
- CentOS release 4.x
- CentOS release 3.x
- White Box Enterprise Linux release 4
- White Box Enterprise Linux release 3
- Red Hat Linux release 7.3
- Trustix Secure Linux release 2.2
- Data backups
- Task monitoring
- Network traffic monitoring for each virtual server
- Pre-generated batch installation of RPMs (called templates) for the following operating systems
- Complete integration with H-Sphere
[edit] Similar technologies
Other implementations of operating system-level virtualization technology are OpenVZ/Virtuozzo, Linux-VServer, FreeBSD Jails, and Solaris Containers.
