Full virtualization – it emulates hardware, guest OS was not changed.

• VMWare ESX
• Hyper-V

Paravirtualization – it doesn’t emilate hardware, it maps request directly to some part of hardware. Guest OS was changed, it doesn’t contain device drivers.

• Xen

OS Level

• KVM
• VirtualBox

Containers – all containers runs on single kernel and file system (you can easily copy files between host OS and containers)

• LXC
• LXD
• OpenVZ
• Docker

Application level

• java
• wine
• cgroups

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