

The first public release took place in April 2008. KVM was appearing at the same time in Linux, and was added shortly afterwards. History ĭevelopment of Proxmox VE started when Dietmar Maurer and Martin Maurer, two Linux developers, found out OpenVZ had no backup tool and no management GUI. Proxmox VE is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3. It includes a web-based management interface.

Two types of virtualization are supported: container-based with LXC (starting from version 4.0 replacing OpenVZ used in version up to 3.4, included ), and full virtualization with KVM. Proxmox VE includes a web console and command-line tools, and provides a REST API for third-party tools. It is a Debian-based Linux distribution with a modified Ubuntu LTS kernel and allows deployment and management of virtual machines and containers.

It is a hosted hypervisor that can run operating systems including Linux and Windows on 圆4 hardware. Proxmox Virtual Environment ( Proxmox VE or PVE) is a hyper-converged infrastructure open-source software.
