Company Virtuozzo (former division of Parallels), developing server software for virtualization based on open projects, start Public distribution Distribution vzlinux , which was previously used as a basic operating system for the company developed by the Virtualization Platform and various commercial products. From now on, VZlinux became accessible to everyone and positioned as a replacement of CentOS 8, ready for workshops.
For Download The release of VZlinux 8.3-7, built by rebeling the source text packets Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 . The assembly is prepared for the X86_64 architecture and are supplied in two versions – full (4.2g) and compact (1.5G). Scheduled system images for OpenStack and Docker. VZlinux is completely binary compatible with RHEL and can be used for transparent replacement solutions based on RHEL 8 and CENTOS 8.
emphasizes that VZLinux is supplied without restrictions, free and from now on will develop as an open project developed with the participation of the community. For the distribution, a long accompaniment cycle will be provided corresponding to the update release cycle for Rhel 8.
The proposed installation image is designed to be installed on the usual equipment, but in the future it is planned to publish two additional editions optimized for use in containers and in virtual machines. This is the composition of the current assembly already includes additions for efficient operation running hypervisors Virtuozzo, OpenVZ and KVM, as well as templates for deploying in cloud systems AWS, Azure and GCP.
To quickly transfer to VZLinux existing solutions that use CENTOS 8, a special utility that supports migration both virtual machines and systems installed on bare equipment are provided. Virtuozzo also provides additional functionality to create snapshots to roll back changes in case of problems when migrating and automating the transfer of server groups.
In the future, it is planned to provide a utility for switching from CentOS 7, add an agent for Acronis backup systems and start delivering Virtuozzo Linux
Enterprise Edition, distinguished commercial support and delivery of Live patches, allowing to update the kernel without rebooting. Next year, it is additionally planned to release a commercial edition of Hoster Edition for use in hosting systems.
