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= Containers versus Virtual Machines =
This article gives an overview of containers for those who know what a Virtual Machine (VM) is. VMs are implemented by products such as VMware, KVM, Xen, Parallels, XenDesktop, Hyper-V, Virtual Box etc. If you do not have experience with those or similar products, better read [[../What are containers/]] whitepaper.
Containers are very similar to VMs in a sense that they also let one to partition one physical computer into multiple small isolated partitions (called VMs or containers).