You are effectively correct, and to take it a bit further the "VM" in JVM does mean the same thing as the VM in VMWare even if it feels a lot different in pract

You are effectively correct, and to take it a bit further the "VM" in JVM does mean the same thing as the VM in VMWare even if it feels a lot different in practice. If all your dependencies are JVM based and bundled into a JAR/WAR, OS containers aren't doing much for you.