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Replies for: Maybe Docker will work for you. Virtual Machines are quite heavy, Docker is an alternative to have multiple machines sharing resources. This shou...

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Kristjan Grm •

Thanks for your reply! But when I have Docker running on my computer I cannot use VirtualBox because one of them requires certain feature to be turned off or something like that.

I use virtualbox for its visual expirience aswell. Is it possible to run docker as a virtual machine with desktop and everything?

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Clive Da •

yes absolutely use docker in your vm preferably with a lightweight distro such as lubuntu or xubuntu