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  • testman@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlAlternatives to VirtualBox?
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    17 days ago

    As jet points out, QEMU for actual hardware virtualisation.

    There is one relevant thing, which is not exactly in the same category, but does somewhat similar thing:
    containers
    most popular example being Docker
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Containerization_(computing)
    containers don’t emulate whole hardware stack like virtual machines do, they just run the guest OS on top of host OS.
    so because they don’t put resources towards emulating hardware, they are much more resource efficient.
    so if your problem is “I’m running Fedora but I want to run something that for some reason runs just on Ubuntu”, then you could use containers for that.
    containers are mostly used in headless environments (as in servers, no GUI), so running and displaying desktop Linux inside them is a bit tricky, but it can be done.



























  • testman@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlenough said.
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    1 year ago

    Is there any collection of such inspirational / wisdom quotes?
    If not, then one should be started.
    And this quote should be added to it.

    I expected the classic “be the change that you wabt to see in the world”, but despite being similar, this one is very good as well.