After being ported to POWER architecture two weeks ago, OpenVZ is preparing to land on Sun SPARC architectures as well as revealed on the official blog:
…we are now porting to SPARC, thanks to Jonathan Kinney, a data systems specialist from Washington, USA. It all started with his question which he posted to forum back in May 2006:…
A few months later, in October, Jonathan returned again to that forum thread and said that he have the hardware and is willing to assist in porting OpenVZ to it. Kirill Korotaev picked it up from there, and just a few minutes ago I heard from him that he now have the kernel which boots and works. Apparently, the size of patch is just about 1500 lines…
Read the whole article at source.
It really seems OpenVZ is counting on architecture portability as part of its success.