FreeVPS

FreeVPS is a GPL-licensed virtualization patch for the Linux kernel developed by Positive Software Corporation. It was originally a fork of Linux-VServer.

[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
Complete integration with H-Sphere