You're talking about specialized mid-higher end hardware. That said,
those drivers should be backported to that 2.6.32 kernel.

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 8:25 PM, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The gains are insignificant with an openvz jail environment compared to a
> paravirtualized (PV, not HVM) Xen environment. With OpenVZ in its current
> incarnation you are stuck running a 2.6.32 series ancient kernel which
> significantly reduces support for high performance I/O devices such as the
> latest 10GbE PCI-Express 3.0 NICs, which are now as cheap as $200 a piece.
> Also nonexistant support for high performance 1500-2000MB/s storage devices
> such as M.2 format PCI Express SSDs (Samsung, Intel) and support for the
> motherboard firmwares that enable booting from M.2.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Josh Reynolds <j...@kyneticwifi.com> wrote:
>>
>> The can be significant performance gains in both memory reduction and
>> IO by using OpenVZ though. It just depends on your needs and
>> environment.
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuh...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Openvz is really more like a chroot jail. You can accomplish much better
>> > functionality and the ability to run a wider range of guest VMs with xen
>> > or
>> > kvm.
>> >
>> > Keep in mind with openvz all guest OS must run the same kernel as the
>> > host.
>> >
>> > Unless you need openvz for a hosting environment that will have hundreds
>> > of
>> > small VMs on a server with 128GB RAM?
>> >
>> > On Nov 11, 2015 3:58 PM, "Matt" <matt.mailingli...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Anyone out there using Proxmox for virtualization?  Have been using if
>> >> for few years running Centos Openvz containers.  Like fact that Openvz
>> >> is light weight and gives very little performance penalty.  In Proxmox
>> >> 4.x they have introduced the ZFS file system which I think is a great
>> >> offering many features such as mirroring etc.  They have also switched
>> >> from Openvz to LXC for containers.  Anyone used LXC much?  Is it
>> >> stable?  Pros and cons vs Openvz?
>
>

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