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Incus provides support for two different types of instances: system containers and virtual machines. Incus uses features of the Linux kernel (such as namespaces and cgroups) in the implementation o...

Incus provides support for two different types of instances: system containers and virtual machines. Incus uses features of the Linux kernel (such as namespaces and cgroups) in the implementation of system containers. If you run several system containers, they all share the same kernel, which makes them faster and more lightweight than virtual machines.

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