Comment on IBM Intellistation 185 AIX workstation (2016)parentComments−tecleandor11moIIRC, WPARs could be just for one process, or full OS (but sharing the resources of one AIX instance, I guess that running on an LPAR or directly in the hardware).But yeah, bit more like a container.−irusensei11moThen it was probably an LPAR. Are those reliant on hardware magic or just something like cgroups?−sillywalk11moLPARs use hardware virtualization. The PowerVM hypervisor (PHYP) is in firmware.
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IIRC, WPARs could be just for one process, or full OS (but sharing the resources of one AIX instance, I guess that running on an LPAR or directly in the hardware).
But yeah, bit more like a container.
Then it was probably an LPAR. Are those reliant on hardware magic or just something like cgroups?
LPARs use hardware virtualization. The PowerVM hypervisor (PHYP) is in firmware.