Quote Originally Posted by madaboutlinux View Post
It depends on the Virtualization software that is installed on the hardware server.

If it is Xen, your hosting provider won't be able to view anything on your server. They will require the root password (though they can stop and mount your VPS on a directory to view the data but no one does it). So, the answer to all your 3 questions is NO.

If it is OpenVZ OR Virtuozzo, it is easy for the provider to check everything that you have on your VPS via the main node. So the answer to all your 3 questions is YES. (In this case, provider can view everything even the VPS is in running state).

BTW, it is said 'Private' because you don't share your VPS with other clients hosted on the main server. It's your own VPS with no interference of other clients.
Yes I understand Xen and OpenVZ are the main ones, and what about these ones:

KVM
Hyper-V
VMware