What is the status of Linux-VServer?
Linux-VServer has more than a decade of maturity and is actively developed. Two projects are similar to Linux-VServer, [LXC], and [OpenVZ]. Of the two, OpenVZ is the more mature and offers some similar functionality to Linux-VServer. LXC is solely based on the kernel mechanisms such as cgroups that are present in modern kernels. These kernel mechanisms will continue to be refined and isolation will mature. As that occurs, Linux-VServer will take advantage of those new features separately from LXC and continue to provide the same robust user interface that it does currently. Currently, LXC offers significantly less functionality and isolation than Linux-vserver. LXC will eventually be a robust wrapper around kernel mechanisms but is still under heavy development and not considered ready for production use.
