Containers and virtual machines

Containers and Virtual Machines

^ Container Software

• Docker

Containers, Kubernets . . .

• https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/what-is-kubernetes/

Not a container per se but a virtual machine software:

• https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

^ Oracle Corporation VirtualBox software

VirtualBox on-line manual

• https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch01.html#virt-why-useful
Some important VM terms include,
• host OS . . . the OS on which VirtualBox software runs
• guest OS . . . the OS which runs inside a VirtualBox VM instance
• virtual machine . . . the hosting environment which VirtualBox creates for given guest OS

To set up shared folders in VirtualBox instances:

• https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html