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Virtuozzo history
Virtuozzo company history timeline
Dec 2001: Virtuozzo for Windows project started
Jan 2002: SWsoft (now known as Virtuozzo) initially released a product for Linux named Virtuozzo Feb 2002: First clients in Silicon Valley
Feb 2002: First clients in Silicon Valley
In 2003, SWsoft acquired the makers of Confixx and Plesk web hosting products, and expanded its presence in Germany and Novosibirsk, Russia.
Well, not exactly "containers", but rather "virtual environments" at that time -- as it often happens with new technologies, the terminology was different (the term "container" was coined by Sun only five years later, in 2004).—Kir Kolyshkin, http://openvz.livejournal.com/49158.html
Dec 2004: Initial release of Virtuozzo for Windows
Apr 2006: Port to Fedora Core 5 kernel
In December 2007, after the acquisition of Parallels, Inc., SWsoft company announced its plans to change its name to Parallels and distribute its products under the Parallels brand name.
Mar 2007: Port to RHEL5 kernel
In TKU October 2009 slightly update to the pattern was made.
Aug 2009: Parallels company is in Top 10 Linux kernel contributors with their patches for Linux containers.
Sep 2011: Cyrill Gorcunov made first commit to CRIU project
In TKU July 2012 the following changes were made:
Jul 2012: CRIU v0.1 is available Oct 2012: vzctl for upstream Linux kernel is available
May 2013: OpenVZ maintenance partnership
In TKU July 2013 VirtuozzoContainers pattern regex was updated to not extract "-" if no IP adress if VM was found.
Dec 2014: Parallels announced merging OpenVZ and Parallels Cloud Server into single common open source codebase
In TKU February 2015 the pattern was updated with the following changes:
In December 2015, Virtuozzo spun off and became a standalone company, lead by entrepreneur and former Parallels exec Rob Lovell.
Jun 2015: Source code of most userspace utilities was published
In May 2016, Virtuozzo announced its intention to join the Open Container Initiative and plans to develop dedicated cloud-based servers as well as a specialized Linux distribution.
Virtuozzo announced a strategic partnership with Jelastic in August 2016 to produce Virtuozzo DevOps, an application orchestration platform aimed at mid to large size companies.
The company named George Karidis its CEO in November 2016.
In April 2017, Virtuozzo partnered with Packet.net to distribute Virtuozzo software through Packet.
In TKU April 2019 the following changes were made:
In TKU April 2022 the following changes were made:
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