What is the Linux Virtual Server?

The Linux Virtual Server is a highly scalable and highly available server built on a cluster of real servers, with the load balancer running on the Linux operating system. The architecture of the cluster is transparent to end users. End users only see a single virtual server. For more information click here.

Applications of the Linux Virtual Server

The Linux Virtual Server can be used to build highly scalable and high available network services, such as a scalable web, mail or media service.

What is this site about?

This site hosts the Linux Virtual Server kernel patches and related programs, released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). This site also provides information on the Linux Virtual Server: how it works, how to use it, and its ongoing development.

Latest Press News... Thursday, July 6th, 2000

The IPVS Netfilter module (version 0.0.4) for kernel 2.4 was released on July 30th, 2000. Rusty tidy up many code at OLS, and Julian changed to use slab cache for connection allocation, etc. Click the software page for more information.

The IPVS Netfilter module (version 0.0.3) for kernel 2.4 was released on July 6th, 2000. The most functioality has been implemented, it is available for testing. Click the software page for more information.

The virtual server patch version 0.9.15 for kernel 2.2.16 was released on June 28th, 2000. Go to the software page for more information.

The virtual server patch version 0.9.14 for kernel 2.2.16 was released on June 17th, 2000. Little changes will make VS/NAT and VS/DR work when the external MTU is larger than the internal MTU, click the software page for more information.

The IPVS Netfilter module (version 0.0.1) for kernel 2.4 was available for simple testings on May 31st, 2000. Click the software page for more information.

The virtual server patch version 0.9.13 for kernel 2.2.15 was released on May 25th, 2000. Several bugs were fixed and some performance was improved. If you run 0.9.8 to 0.9.12, we strongly recommend you to upgrade to this one. Click the software page for more information.

The virtual server patch version 0.9.12 for kernel 2.2.14 was released on May 2nd, 2000. some small bugs were fixed, click the software page for more information.

announced that the release of Ultra Monkey 1.0.0 was available on May 1st. Ultra Monkey is a complete open source server farm solution for linux, providing high availability and load balancing. See the Ultra Monkey site for more information.

The virtual server patch version 0.9.11 for kernel 2.2.14 was released on April 17, 2000. Several bugs were fixed, click the software page for more information.

The virtual server patch version 0.9.10 for kernel 2.2.14 was released on April 9, 2000. Go to the software page to download.

The virtual server patch v0.9.9 for kernel 2.2.14 (ipvs-0.9.9-2.2.14.tar.gz) was released on March 16, 2000

The virtual server patch v0.9.8 for kernel 2.2.14 (ipvs-0.9.8-2.2.14.tar.gz)was released on March 13, 2000

The joint demonstration of open source Linux web farm was quite successful in Linux World in New York in February 2000. Here is the detailed information about the Complete Open Source Linux Web Farm Solution.

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