[Info-vax] Broadcom ends availablility of the free edition ESXi Hypervisor

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2024 00:18:11 +0000, Chris Townley wrote:

> Also KVM works well, which of course is free software

KVM is the core Linux building block for virtualization. I suspect a lot 
of other products get built with KVM as their foundation.

Sometimes, you don’t need full-on virtualization; a container-based 
technology can be useful for many workloads, and is lighter weight.
Linux does not actually have the concept of a “container” as a built-in 
primitive: instead, these are built out of lower-level pieces, namely 
namespaces and cgroups. Examples of these container technologies are LXC, 
systemd-nspawn, and of course Docker.