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operating system-level virtualization
Last modified: Tuesday, December 19, 2006
More commonly called OS-level virtualization.
A type of server virtualization technology which works at the
OS layer. The
physicalserver and single instance of the operating system is
virtualized into
multiple isolated partitions, where each partition replicates a real server. The
OS kernel will run a single operating system and provide that operating system
functionality to each of the partitions. Not to be confused with
operating system virtualization.