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Re:Containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs by colordrops on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @12:37AM (#13983442)
In my experience it does two things that VMs don't do as well:

1. More efficient use of hardware (including spin up time) 2. Better mechanisms for tying together and sharing resources across boundaries.

But in the end they don't really do anything you couldn't do with a VM. It's just that people realized that VMs are overkill for many use cases.

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Re:Containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs by deckiedan on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @02:34AM (#13983928)
They make shared folders and individual files a lot easier than VMs, also process monitoring from the "host".
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Re:Containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs by AstralStorm on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @08:17AM (#13985284)
Very much not worth the cost of reduced security and reliability. You also have vastly more complicated failover due to no easy migration.
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