== Comparison ==
There are many different computer platforms, and thus many different virtualization technologies. See [[wp:Comparison of platform virtualization software|Comparison of platform virtualization software]]for a comprehensive list. We will be focusing on current, non-proprietary, mainstream projects so not FreeBSD jails, or Parallels Desktop for Mac
== Leading Choices ==
=== Kubernetes ===
[[File:Kubernetes_logo_without_workmark.svg|thumb|right|80px|Kubernetes|link=Kubernetes]][[Kubernetes]] is an open-source container-orchestration system for automating computer application deployment, scaling, and management. It was originally designed by Google and is now maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
=== OpenStack ===
[[File:Openstack-logo-full.svg|thumb|right|150px|OpenStack|link=https://openstack.org]] OpenStack is a set of software components that provide common services for cloud infrastructure. There are many [https://www.openstack.org/software/project-navigator/openstack-components components]. Within OpenStack, there is an API service called Magnum which "makes container orchestration engines such as Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, and Apache Mesos available as first class resources in OpenStack."<ref>https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Magnum</ref>
=== Linux containers ===
https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/try-it/
=== VirtualBox (Oracle) ===
The [[Virtualbox]] base package is GPL licensed. It's now controlled by Oracle. [[wp:VirtualBox]]
=== VMWare (Dell) ===* [[wp:VirtualBox|VirtualBoxVMware]] (Oracle) ===Base package is GPL licensed. It's now controlled by Oracle.* [[wp:VMware Player]]* [[Virtualbox|VirtualBoxwp:VMware Workstation]]
==Converting to Virtual = =See [[wp:VMware|VMwarePhysical-to-Virtual]] (Ciscooften known as P2V) ===* [[wp:VMware Player|VMware Player]]* [[wp:VMware Workstation|VMware Workstation]].
== Converting There are many tools in the virtualization space for converting from one format to Virtual ==another. For example, [[wphttps:Physical//kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/translate-tocompose-Virtual|Physicalkubernetes/ translating from a docker-compose.yml file to-Virtual]a Kubernetes YAML file].
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