Yes and no, but mostly yes.
Users are strongly discouraged from trying to run Helios in a type-2 or hosted hypervisor like VMWare Workstation or VirtualBox. These are not appropriate to host any kind of high performance application or system service in a production environment. That’s not to say it wouldn’t work, but you are putting a high performance application in an environment with a very limited capacity.
Having said that, virtualisation or type-1 native hypervisors are perfectly acceptable like KVM. This is common place in data centres around the world. This is probably what you want. You must ensure, however, that AVX / AVX2 and FMA hardware acceleration is available if running on 64-bit x86 hardware.
System administrators need to manage large infrastructures by abstracting customer needs from the underlying hardware that may need to change from time to time. Software engineers require the efficiencies of high performance computing that must have direct access to hardware to be useful in some circumstance. A type-1 hypervisor reconciles these needs.
Docker containers should be fine too, though they may need some tweaking.
