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Re:Terminal – Virtual computers that start, resize, and scal... by wmf on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @11:56PM (#8072846)
LXC or Docker. You can resize a container by changing the parameters on the cgroups.
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Re:Terminal – Virtual computers that start, resize, and scal... by spartango on Wednesday July 23, 2014 @12:26AM (#8072913)
Xen/VMWare also support hot resizing of CPU and RAM.

What's interesting is that neither LXC nor Docker support memory snapshots (machine state), which Terminal.com has demonstrated. Xen, KVM, and VMWare do, but I can't really imagine people running these atop AWS infrastructure (Xen underneath).

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