However, since virtual Windows or Linux guests are isolated from the host and ... Many other virtual servers can run ...

(1) See server virtualization. Contrast with virtual host. (2) A virtual machine environment from Microsoft for Windows servers. See Microsoft Virtual Server. (3) Multiple servers that appear as ...

Decades ago, OS virtualization was built into various Unix operating systems, and it migrated into the Linux world in the mid-2000s. Microsoft also built in containers in Windows Server 2016.