[anonfordays]

>You can call it what you want

I call it as it is.

>but absolutely no one considers chroot virtualization in any meaningful sense.

Absolutely everyone who's knowledgable in virtualization considers chroot to be a type of OS-level virtualization.

>Nothing is being virtualized, containers are just regular processes on the host system.

Wrong, "...OS-level virtualization is an operating system (OS) virtualization paradigm in which the kernel allows the existence of multiple isolated user space instances..."

"OS Virtualization" == "OS " + "Virtualization"