The big plus of using microVMs is that a bunch of container limitations fall away. In Linux, over time people have been eliminating the limitations of containers. Chroot, network namespaces, filesystem namespaces, process namespaces, ... everything is trying to go into the direction of getting to microVMs making things more complicated at every step of the way.
But decent VM automation on VirtualBox (for the first ~5 years had MUCH better API/RPC and frankly still does than anything else) got you all that 10+ years ago.
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But decent VM automation on VirtualBox (for the first ~5 years had MUCH better API/RPC and frankly still does than anything else) got you all that 10+ years ago.