lxc is lighter weight. just like 5% page size saves millions in bandwidth. 5% cpu overhead saves in electricity and hardware costs. Assuming all other things be

lxc is lighter weight. just like 5% page size saves millions in bandwidth. 5% cpu overhead saves in electricity and hardware costs. Assuming all other things being equal (I know they aren't - but security, tooling, and management can be improved) vmware has inherent overhead of the hypervisor that's not an issue with lxc.