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Virtualization

Hypervisors or Virtualizers

  • Virtualbox
  • Xen
  • KVM

OS-Level Virtualizers

  • Containers - LXC, Docker, Podman, OpenVZ (VPS)
  • Jails - chroot, BSD Jails

Emulators

  • QEMU
Note

QEMU can work with KVM to provide CPU and Memory passthrough for native virtualization.

Performance

Virtualbox uses both hardware and software virtualization. It is said to achieve better performance than QEMU, but QEMU/KVM is said to perform better than Virtualbox.

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