Virtuozzo: Mixed Workloads Without the Bloat What Is It? Virtuozzo’s not another KVM wrapper or yet one more hypervisor dashboard. It’s a platform with a long history in commercial hosting — and it shows. This is the system many VPS providers built their infrastructure on years ago, and it’s still around for a reason: it packs a lot into a tightly managed cluster without getting in your way.

Instead of making a choice between containers and VMs, Virtuozzo runs both — in parallel, on the same in

Hyper-V Manager: Native Virtualization for Windows-Based Infrastructure What Is It? Hyper-V Manager is the official management console for Microsoft’s native hypervisor, built into Windows Server and optional on Windows 10/11 Pro, Enterprise, and Education editions. Unlike third-party hypervisors, Hyper-V is tightly integrated with the Windows kernel, offering high performance and strong isolation — without relying on external drivers or user-mode hacks.

Administrators use Hyper-V Manager to cr

Multipass: Instant Ubuntu VMs with Zero Fuss What Is It? Multipass isn’t trying to be a full-blown virtualization platform — and that’s its strength. Built by Canonical, it’s designed to spin up fresh Ubuntu environments locally with as little friction as possible. No ISO downloads, no multi-step wizards, no heavy GUI. Just one CLI command, and a new VM is ready to go.

It’s not built for production — and it doesn’t pretend to be. Multipass fits in those everyday moments: testing a script, stagi

UTM (macOS port on Windows): Local Virtualization Without Hyper-V General Overview UTM is a virtualization solution originally built for macOS, powered by QEMU and Apple’s Hypervisor.framework. This port brings the same lightweight, GUI-driven experience to Windows by adapting it for local hypervisor capabilities and software-based virtualization. Unlike full-featured hypervisors like VMware Workstation or Hyper-V, UTM emphasizes simplicity and full user-space operation, making it particularly a