On April 29, 2005, two Linux developers in Vienna, Dietmar and Martin Maurer, released Proxmox Mail Gateway and registered the GmbH. Three years later came Virtual Environment: OpenVZ + KVM, a browser, Debian. In 2026, Proxmox VE 9.2 (May 21) runs kernel 7.0, QEMU 11, and LXC 7 … Read more
In 2003, a hypervisor emerged from Cambridge’s Computer Laboratory and changed how servers were divided up. Xen — type 1, GPLv2, paravirtualization — became the foundation of Amazon EC2, Rackspace, and later Qubes OS. In 2026, Xen Project 4.21 is still the core of XenServer, XCP-ng, and a … Read more
On January 15, 2007, a GmbH in Weinstadt, Germany, released the code of the hypervisor it used with government and banking customers. The product was called VirtualBox. Within a year, it exceeded four million downloads; in February 2008, Sun bought Innotek; in January 2010, Oracle arrived. Nineteen years … Read more
