OpenVZ Inside VirtualBox on iMac
CommentsI finally decided to install VirtualBox on Mac. The main reason is a testing of new releases of OpenVZ Web Panel. I have several physical servers under OpenVZ, but I can’t extensively test Owp on them. Because have a lot of virtual servers there that could be damaged due to some bug in panel during testing process.
Neither VMware Fusion nor Parallels Desktop is not really interesting for me. They primary focused on Windows virtualization and both are commercial solutions. Hearing for a long time about how cool VirtualBox is, I finally decided to try it.
After setup I downloaded Debian 6 netinstall iso and installed the system. As my goal was to test Owp, next step was to install OpenVZ kernel. It failed for the first time. But after enabling PAE/NX for virtual machine, the second attempt was succeeded.
Next question was the performance. I really impressed! Virtual server on iMac works really fast, even faster than one of my physical servers.
So next Owp release will be also tested with assistance of VirtualBox and snapshots. I’m really glad that I switched from my old VMware server, which I used from time to time for testing purposes and it was very slow.
