What is the difference between containerization (Docker) and virtualization (VMWare, VirtualBox, Xen)?

Question

What is the difference between containerization (Docker) and virtualization (VMWare, VirtualBox, Xen)?

Answer 1

Both Dockers and VMs have different areas of the appliance. Dockers are used when you talk about running the same operating system in the guest and host. So, you can say docker is OS-level virtualization which consumes fewer resources. Whereas VMs are more universal but they have larger overhead.

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