Virtualization lets one physical host run several isolated operating systems, called guests or VMs (virtual machines). On Linux the standard open-source stack is KVM, QEMU and libvirt. Linux+ expects you to know what each layer does, manage guests from the command line and choose a disk image format. It also helps to keep the difference from containers clear: a VM runs its own kernel on virtual hardware, while a container shares the host kernel.
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