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There are three solutions for [[Operating system-level virtualization|OS-level virtualization]]: [[Linux-VServer]], [[LXC]] and [[OpenVZ]], which offer similarities to [[FreeBSD jail]]s and [[Solaris Containers]].

A Linux operating systems runs virtualized on the [[Xen]], a micro-kernel-type hypervisor published under the same license as the Linux kernel ([[GNU General Public License#Version_2|GNU GPL-2.0]]), and with [[Kernel-based Virtual Machine|KVM]] it is possible to turn the Linux kernel into a [[hypervisor]].

For the managing there are [[libvirt]], [[libguestfs]], and several utilities building upon them as well as a couple of other programs.

[[OpenStack]] controller nodes run exclusively on Linux, while compute nodes are cross-platform.

==Linux for mobile devices==