[Users] Any hope for a return of OVZ?

[jjs - mainphrame]

It's ironic to see the claim of a free open source virtualization platform.

I was doing a quick latency comparison using a command like: time ssh
$user@$host
w  (with ssh key login)

In my experience that typically takes 125-150 ms for OVZ, 250-300 ms for
LXC, and 300-500 ms for QEMU/KVM.

Joe



On Sat, Oct 11, 2025 at 4:07 AM jehan Procaccia <
jehan.procaccia at imtbs-tsp.eu> wrote:

> Hi, exactly same story here, long time user of openVZ , even subscribe to
> few Virtuozzo licences (VHS) to support the project
>
> we've been waiting for ovz9 to no avail, nowdays  that there's a RHEL 10,
> there might be an interest for ovz 10 !
>
> anyway, we've moved to Proxmox, using LXC container when possible, that
> works quite fine, I didn't notice yet  a  2 times faster result from
> PMX/LCX  in regards to openVZ CT, but didn't took the time to bench .
>
> it's indeed a shame, while Virtuozzo still claim :
>
> *OpenVZ <https://openvz.org/> is a free, open-source virtualization
> solution available under GNU GPL. OpenVZ is the base for Virtuozzo Hybrid
> Server, the commercial solution that builds on OpenVZ and offers additional
> benefits to customers.*
>
> cf :
> https://docs.virtuozzo.com/virtuozzo_hybrid_server_7_users_guide/learning-basics/vhs-vs-openvz.html
>
> jehan.
> On 07/10/2025 18:01, jjs - mainphrame wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I was an openvz and virtuozzo user and admin since around 2011 or so.
> Since the company ended their support for OVZ, I've reluctantly migrated
> almost everything to proxmox.
>
> I still have containers on two OVZ VMs on Proxmox, but I'm about to
> migrate their functionality away and shut down the OVZ VMs for good.
>
> I did some preparatory testing and couldn't help but notice that the OVZ
> CTs are still much snappier than KVM VMs or LXC containers. Even with OVZ
> running in a VM, the network response time on the OVZ container s is about
> 3 times faster than that of a KVM VM, and over twice as fast as an LXC
> container.
>
> A shame, really. This was the best virtualization platform.  But life goes
> on.
>
> I'd be curious if there was any hope for OpenVZ down the road, or what
> alternatives have been chosen in its place.
>
> Joe
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