Parallels Virtuozzo Containers for Linux is more flexible than many OS Server Virtualization technologies, different Linux distributions may reside on the same physical server.
Supported Host OS Distributions
Parallels Server BETA is a bare metal cross-platform hypervisor virtualization solution that can be installed on most Intel-based computers with Intel VT-x or AMD-V hardware virtualization support that have
Mac OS X, Windoz, GNU/Linux, or no primary operating system installed.
Parallels now have their own Virtual Appliances Directory
http://www.parallels.com/ptn/download/va/
in a similar vein to JumpBox, VMwares and rPaths Software Appliance directories.
The Google App Engine JumpBox gives you a drop in place system for doing Google App Engine development that’s contained in an isolated environment within a virtual machine.
It runs exactly the same on GNU/Linux, Mac and other OS’s and gives you a development environment that lets you take advantage of great virtualization features like snapshots. It will run from a single download on Parallels Desktop, VMWare, Virtual Iron, Xen Open Source in fully virtualized mode and others.
Parallels is offering a new complimentary eBook The Shortcut Guide to Selecting the Right Virtualization Solution. Authored by virtualization expert Greg Shields, this new title will help you understand the critical components associated with making the jump to virtualization.
http://www.parallels.com/en/news/id,13122
March 19, 2008
RENTON, Wash., March 19, 2008 – Parallels (formerly SWsoft) today announced that Swyx Solutions AG has selected Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.0 to deliver a cost-efficient and scalable hosted PBX application via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model.
Using Parallels software, Swyx quickly delivered “Hosted SwyxWare,” a hosted solution based on its “SwyxWare” telecommunications system for Microsoft Windows. Hosted SwyxWare combines locally installed software components and virtual-PBX servers running in Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, which helps businesses save money by replacing or supplementing their conventional PBX solutions.