Bastard is a patchset designed for building virtual server container machines, with essential elements focused on virtual server functionality.
Bastard includes several key features such as the CTX-VS patch, which is useful for creating overlayed filesystems on top of the server's template. Additionally, it uses squashfs to help create a smaller template server. The bme and lufs extensions come in handy for quickly creating overlayed filesystems that can be used on top of the template. Apart from these features, Bastard also has honeynet-inspired extensions that make the monitoring of hosted servers much more efficient.
Bastard also offers VPN extensions like OpenSWAN, CIPE, and MPPE, which are useful for enabling direct access to virtual servers in situations where IP addresses are scarce.
The latest stable release, 35b, has been updated to keep up with Linux 2.4.35.3. In the latest 40s development release, Bastard has fixed the security issue described by CVE-2008-060 (vmsplice) and updated Openvz to ovz028stab051.1.
In conclusion, if you're looking for an exceptional software solution for virtual servers, Bastard project is the way to go!
Version 35b / 40s: N/A