Virtuozzo company history timeline

2001

Dec 2001: Virtuozzo for Windows project started

2002

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

2003

In 2003, SWsoft acquired the makers of Confixx and Plesk web hosting products, and expanded its presence in Germany and Novosibirsk, Russia.

2004

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

2006

Apr 2006: Port to Fedora Core 5 kernel

2007

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

2009

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.

2011

Sep 2011: Cyrill Gorcunov made first commit to CRIU project

2012

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

2013

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.

2014

Dec 2014: Parallels announced merging OpenVZ and Parallels Cloud Server into single common open source codebase

2015

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

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