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VirtualBox and VMWare do very different things than lxc/Docker. VirtualBox and VMWare, for example, allow you to run Windows on a Mac, or FreeBSD on Linux, or
by Mister_Snuggles 10y ago
VirtualBox and VMWare do very different things than lxc/Docker.
VirtualBox and VMWare, for example, allow you to run Windows on a Mac, or FreeBSD on Linux, or Linux on Windows. lxc/Docker does none of this, it's simply a different technology with a different purpose.
- criddell 10y agoYes they are different technologies and have different strengths. Before Docker, a VM was just about the only way to decouple a software environment from specific hardware. Now some people are migrating from a VM to Docker if that's all they need. I have no idea how big the impact of Docker is on the various VM vendors, but it isn't zero.