At terminal we're attempting to deliver a VMWare-like experience without a hypervisor. The only way to do this that I know of is containers without a hypervisor

At terminal we're attempting to deliver a VMWare-like experience without a hypervisor. The only way to do this that I know of is containers without a hypervisor[0]. I think it works pretty well, check it out at terminal.com if you'd like. Let me know if you'd like more clarification. We currently have live-migration working without a hypervisor in production, but we haven't built out a lot of the extra tooling that VMWare has (particularly around alerting and monitoring). We'll get around to that eventually. [0]http://image.slidesharecdn.com/realizinglinuxcontainerslxc-140311110026-phpapp02/95/realizing-linux-containers-lxc-4-638.jpg?cb=1394553785 http://image.slidesharecdn.com/realizinglinuxcontainerslxc-1... Edit: there are lots of benefits you get from having a hypervisor (like being able to run different kernels) but there are big performance penalties from virtualizing the kernel. If you can get the process isolation benefits of hypervisors but without the slow boot times and performance hits, that's probably what you want for most applications.