Reply to post: What's a VM These Days Anyway?

The point of containers is they aren't VMs, yet Microsoft licenses SQL Server in containers as if they were VMs

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What's a VM These Days Anyway?

With so much of the IO being punted back to the host via very thin virtual devices, and often running a single application, such a VM is really nothing more than a fancy green threads scheduler sat on top of a host OS.

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