Virtualization

An enterprise-class, type-1 hypervisor developed by VMware.

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX) is an enterprise-class, type-1 hypervisor developed by VMware for deploying and serving virtual computers. As a type-1 hypervisor, ESXi is not a software application that one installs in an operating system (OS); instead, it includes and integrates vital OS components, such as a kernel.

Links:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_ESXi

A native hypervisor; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems running Windows.

Microsoft Hyper-V, codenamed Viridian[1] and formerly known as Windows Server Virtualization, is a native hypervisor; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems running Windows. Starting with Windows 8, Hyper-V supersedes Windows Virtual PC as the hardware virtualization component of the client editions of Windows NT. A server computer running Hyper-V can be configured to expose individual virtual machines to one or more networks.

Links:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-V

A hypervisor using a microkernel design, providing services that allow multiple computer operating systems to execute on the same computer hardware concurrently.

Xen Project (pronounced as /ˈzɛn/ /prˈɒdʒɛkt/) is a hypervisor using a microkernel design, providing services that allow multiple computer operating systems to execute on the same computer hardware concurrently. It was developed by the Linux Foundation and is supported by Intel.

Links:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen

Links:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_VM_Server_for_x86
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_VM_Server_for_SPARC

A hosted hypervisor that runs on x64 versions of Windows and Linux operating systems.

VMware Workstation is a hosted hypervisor that runs on x64 versions of Windows and Linux operating systems (an x86 version of earlier releases was available);[3] it enables users to set up virtual machines (VMs) on a single physical machine, and use them simultaneously along with the actual machine. Each virtual machine can execute its own operating system, including versions of Microsoft Windows, Linux, BSD, and MS-DOS.

Links:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_Workstation

Links:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_Workstation_Player

A free and open-source hypervisor for x86 computers developed by Oracle Corporation.

Oracle VM VirtualBox (formerly Sun VirtualBox, Sun xVM VirtualBox and Innotek VirtualBox) is a free and open-source hypervisor for x86 computers currently being developed by Oracle Corporation.

Links:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualBox

Provides hardware virtualization for Macintosh computers with Intel processors.

Parallels Desktop for Mac, by Parallels, is software providing hardware virtualization for Macintosh computers with Intel processors.

Links:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallels_Desktop_for_Mac

A hosted virtual machine monitor.

QEMU is a hosted virtual machine monitor: it emulates CPUs through dynamic binary translation and provides a set of device models, enabling it to run a variety of unmodified guest operating systems. It also can be used together with KVM in order to run virtual machines at near-native speed (requiring hardware virtualization extensions on x86 machines). QEMU can also do CPU emulation for user-level processes, allowing applications compiled for one architecture to run on another.

Links:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMU

Wrap up a piece of software in a complete filesystem that contains everything it needs to run: code, runtime, system tools, system libraries.

Docker containers wrap up a piece of software in a complete filesystem that contains everything it needs to run: code, runtime, system tools, system libraries – anything you can install on a server. This guarantees that it will always run the same, regardless of the environment it is running in.

Links:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docker_(software)

An operating-system-level virtualization method for running multiple isolated Linux systems (containers) on a control host using a single Linux kernel.

LXC (Linux Containers) is an operating-system-level virtualization method for running multiple isolated Linux systems (containers) on a control host using a single Linux kernel.

Links:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LXC

An application virtualization and portable application creator suite by VMware.

VMware ThinApp (formerly Thinstall) is an application virtualization and portable application creator suite by VMware that can package conventional applications so that they become portable applications.

Links:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_ThinApp

An open source container cluster manager originally designed by Google and donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Kubernetes (commonly referred to as "K8s") is an open source container cluster manager originally designed by Google and donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. It aims to provide a "platform for automating deployment, scaling, and operations of application containers across clusters of hosts". It usually works with the Docker container tool and coordinates between a wide cluster of hosts running Docker.

Links:

• https://kubernetes.io/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubernetes