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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, Xen, Hyper-V, Virtual Box, Parallels Desktop 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).
# Waiving the need to run multiple OS kernels leads to '''higher density''' of containers (compared to VMs)
# Software stack that lies in between an application and the hardware is much thinner, this means '''higher performance ''' of containers (compared to VMs)
== File system ==