5 Best Free and Open Source OS-level Virtualization

Posted by sde on Oct 8, 2020 2:13 PM EDT
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A container is an operating-system-level virtualization method for running multiple isolated Linux systems on a control host using a single Linux kernel.

Containers are different from Type 1 and 2 hypervisors. A Type 1 hypervisor is known as native or bare-metal. With this type, the hypervisor runs directly on the host’s hardware to control the hardware resources and to manage guest operating systems. In other words, the software hypervisor does not require an additional underlying operating system.

The second type of hypervisor runs under a conventional operating system environment as a second layer, with the guest operating systems then running at the third level.

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