What I mean is that vmware and virtual box differ from docker/lxc in that
vmware and virtual box virtualize hardware (create a software emulation of
the hardware) while docker is a container.

In Vmware and Virtualbox your guest os boots as if it was a machine while
on docker the kernel is already instantiated and docker/lxc create an
isolated compartment within, that is, there is no "real" boot process in
docker.

But I do not know what you are trying to do.


Regards


On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Yiliang Bao <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Sebastian,
>
> Thanks for the quick help. Are you referring to the latest support of
> Docker inside vagrant? I will take a look at Docker anyways.
>
> I do not understand what "virtualization environment" means in your email.
> I assume you are not talking about the virtualization provided by
> virtualbox or VMware, since that is what I using now.
>
> Thanks again!
> Yiliang
>
> On Friday, May 16, 2014 12:12:13 PM UTC-7, Sebastian Otaegui wrote:
>
>> If you used docker it would probably be much faster, but is not
>> virtualization.
>>
>> Do you need a virtualization environment?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Yiliang Bao <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>  Hi,
>>>
>>> I am using vagrant to start many VMs for a test setup. Currently I am
>>> using virtualbox, and it takes about 25 seconds to start a VM. It takes
>>> about 8 seconds for Ubuntu server guest to boot, but there is some other
>>> overhead.
>>>
>>> Since I may need to start many VMs, I am wondering if there is anything
>>> I can do to speed it up. For example, is it possible to start VMs in
>>> parallel. I do not mind to switch to other virtualization platform, like
>>> VMware, if the virtualization platform is the limitation.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Yiliang
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