Linux/Windows performance comparison of MATLAB against other library using containers

I need to compare the performance of MATLAB and an open-source alternative (eg numpy/scipy) on particular matrices problems on both Windows and Linux. It has been expressly asked that the comparison is executed strictly on the same hardware platform - for obvious comparison reasons.

My question is, would using containers (Windows and Linux distro images) satisfy this requirement?

I believe setting two VMs would satisfy the requirement, but using containers would be much less of a hassle and make the tests easily reproducible on any machine, but I'm not too familiar with their architecture or how they access their host's hardware.

Thanks in advance for any help.