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title: "What is a container, and how is it different from a virtual machine?"  
description: "What is a container, and how is it different from a virtual machine?"  
author: "Revati S Misra"  
published: 2023-04-18  
updated: 2023-04-18  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/157901/what-is-a-container-and-how-is-it-different-from-a-virtual-machine  
category: "technology"  
tags: ["technology", "operating system"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is a container, and how is it different from a virtual machine?

What is a [container](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/159610/how-to-connect-a-windows-container-to-a-service-running-on-localhost), and how is it different from a [virtual machine](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/157900/what-is-a-virtual-machine-and-how-does-it-work)?


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