Indeed from the OpenVZ wiki's history section: >"Nov 1999: Alexander Tormasov visited Singapore and proposed a new direction to Sergey Beloussov: container vir

Indeed from the OpenVZ wiki's history section: >"Nov 1999: Alexander Tormasov visited Singapore and proposed a new direction to Sergey Beloussov: container virtualization. He formulated three main components: containers as a set of processes with namespace isolation, file system to share code/ram and isolation in resources. Indeed it was 1999 when our engineers started adding bits and pieces of containers technology to Linux kernel 2.2. Well, not exactly "containers", but rather "virtual environments" at that time -- as it often happens with new technologies, the terminology was different (the term "container" was coined by Sun only five years later, in 2004)."[1] [1] https://wiki.openvz.org/History https://wiki.openvz.org/History