Best virtualization solution with Ubuntu 22.04

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  • runc

    CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification

    runc

  • crun

    A fast and lightweight fully featured OCI runtime and C library for running containers

    crun

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  • Vagrant

    Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.

    If you want an all around easy to use tool that can manager containers (create on the fly, delete when unnecessary, etc.) look into vagrant. There are also options like xen and virtualbox but they are not so lightweight. All of them are in ubuntu repositories.

  • QEMU

    Official QEMU mirror. Please see https://www.qemu.org/contribute/ for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website.

    TLDR; if you just want a simple VM, use gnome-boxes or qemu which is what gnome-boxes uses under the hood.

  • virt-manager

    Desktop tool for managing virtual machines via libvirt

    virt-manager

  • podman

    Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

  • distrobuilder

    System container image builder for LXC and Incus

    which is what docker/podman/containerd use. If you want full system emulation look into LXC/LXD.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • containerd

    An open and reliable container runtime

    containerd

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