From 2f2e7d519ae7ddac0cba74db272f9722fe784bdd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Solomon Hykes Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:34:23 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Rephrased answer to Q4 in the FAQ Upstream-commit: 3813fa8a16ae7e622375182127f764995faf3c53 Component: engine --- components/engine/docs/sources/documentation/faq.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/components/engine/docs/sources/documentation/faq.rst b/components/engine/docs/sources/documentation/faq.rst index aa167acd97..03d584879d 100644 --- a/components/engine/docs/sources/documentation/faq.rst +++ b/components/engine/docs/sources/documentation/faq.rst @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Not at this time, Docker currently only runs on Linux, but you can use VirtualBo **4. How do containers compare to virtual machines?** -Containers are more light weight and can start in less then a second, and are great for lots of different tasks, but they aren't as full featured as virtual machines. +They are complementary. VMs are best used to allocate chunks of hardware resources. Containers operate at the process level, which makes them very lightweight and perfect as a unit of software delivery. **5. Can I help by adding some questions and answers?**