On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 11:04:51AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:46 AM, <m.r...@5-cent.us> wrote: > > > > And yes, I'm well aware that ESXi is a modified version of, mmm, is it > > still RHEL 3, or have they gone up yet? > > The linux components were just for the shell-level interaction and I > think they are mostly gone now. In any case, they don't have > security updates nearly as often as RHEL/Centos pushes a new kernel > which is an advantage for uptime on the guests.
If I remember correctly (but I'm no longer at that job, so don't have access to double check) around VMware 4.x or 5.x it no longer had a Linux shell. Although there are still some commands that work, I _think_ that it's now a very stripped down shell, as opposed to 3.5 which had all the commands available in a Linux shell. So, if I am correct, then Les has summed it up nicely. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
