[fitkoh]

Your quote of my reply "as is" in your above post is a bit out of context... anyway.

There is more information of the differences here: https://wiki.openvz.org/Comparison

^ However I don't necessarily think that the above information will help to properly identify the virt of your VPS. It could be OpenVZ 7 or a very similar but other virt technology. Fair enough I don't have enough experience to identify VZ7 due to lack of having owned or used a VZ 7 based VPS. Given the information about OpenVZ 6 you can however safely identify that your VPS might be NOT VZ 6.


Regarding the Docker control panel thing. I normally don't use control panels for a lot of things but for Docker if you really want to manage a lot of containers and etc. the only real control panel I can recommend is Portainer. It has everything you need or that you would also do based on CLI but with a GUI and everything integrated (docker hub, etc...).

I took a glance at the comparison chart, and you're right. I see a lot of unfamiliar terms and a lot of different types of virtualization with checkboxes in the same category, which would make identifying one or another somewhat difficult. I did notice when I ran virt-what I received 2 responses in the output: both openvz and lxc. I'm not sure if that's a clue or just more confusion to the puzzle.

I  have tried portainer. It's really neat! But I still need to play with it more in a sandbox and figure out exactly how to operate it. In my very limited experience I've had both success and failure with portainer. When it works, it works well. When it doesn't work, I don't have a clue why and retreat back to the command line. I have portainer installed but I usually leave it off so 1. less resource consumption and 2. less access points/better security.