<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Wojtek<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span></span><span>What are "containers" for my reference?</span><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>As I wrote in the previous mail, emulators are one possible implementation of virtualization. If you look at virtualization, you basically have 3 ingredients: a host system, a guest system, and a layer coordinating the access from the guest system(s) to the real HW of the host.</div><div><br></div><div>- If the CPUs of host and guest are not the same, you need an emulator (RISC-5 on Intel)</div><div>- If the CPUs of host and guest are the same but the OSes differ you need a hypervisor like VMWare (Linux on Windows)</div><div>- If CPU and OS of host and guest are identical you can use containers administered eg by Docker (Linux on Linux)</div><div><br><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-level_virtualization">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-level_virtualization</a></div></div><div><br></div><div>br</div><div>Jörg</div></body></html>