9 engineers on Hacker News describe using OpenVZ first-hand: 1 endorse it, 0 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“we've been doing the same thing with OpenVZ for years now, minus a lot of the hype.”
endorse · production · oceanplexian · 2013-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Docker in its earlier incarnations was based on openvz, which predates lxc.”
neutral · production · shykes · 2026-10-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we started with openvz and even today our security relies on SELinux”
neutral · production · giis · 2026-03-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used to use OpenVZ and then proxmox, but LXD seems to cover more or less all my needs.”
neutral · personal · NorwegianDude · 2020-07-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Our existing (homegrown, on top of OpenVz) system makes heavy use of the fact that every resource in the containers are accessible from the host”
neutral · production · vidarh · 2014-09-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The ancestor of Docker at dotCloud ran on openvz. We moved to lxc in 2010 when it became usable.”
neutral · production · shykes · 2013-10-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run OpenVz today, but I'm following Docker closely as we plan to migrate to LXC”
neutral · production · vidarh · 2013-09-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we started using UML (user-mode-linux), then vserver and openvz.”
neutral · production · jpetazzo · 2013-06-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For the last 3 years I've been creating a platform for this kind of servers... It has grown to 15 Openvz hosts.”
neutral · production · 3 yr · Deadsunrise · 2012-02-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?