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Date:      Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:58:00 +0300
From:      Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, hartzell@alerce.com
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How do they do their VPS product? [was Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?]
Message-ID:  <200806201658.01395.nvass@teledomenet.gr>
In-Reply-To: <18522.35183.684254.289777@almost.alerce.com>
References:  <20080619003131.GF51002@dereel.lemis.com> <20080619034525.GA8205@shepherd> <18522.35183.684254.289777@almost.alerce.com>

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On Thursday 19 June 2008 19:29:35 George Hartzell wrote:
> Is/was there some proprietary virtualization technology in the 4.x
> days?

Not a proprietary one:
http://www.tel.fer.hr/zec/BSD/vimage-old/
&
http://imunes.tel.fer.hr/virtnet/eurobsdcon07_tutorial.pdf
The presentation pdf states:
Anecdotal evidence: FreeBSD 4.11 based version in
  production use by some US ISPs

> Is it still alive and kicking somewhere? 

Hopefully, it will be integrated to HEAD during
summer. You can follow the discussions here: 
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization

> Anyone have any insights into how these VPS products were built?

Maybe it was that, maybe not...



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