Chase, John wrote:
Agreed. If it requires even the tiniest of independent operating systems on which to run, then it is an "application program". To me, "bare metal" on the x86 platform includes nothing beyond the BIOS between the software and the hardware.
I would tend to agree, this would not qualify as 'bare metal'. I would hazard a guess that VMWare is not interested in writing operating systems so they borrowed one.
Just to be perfectly clear, they provide the Linux with the ESX and ESXi products. The customer is not required to acquire it as a prereq.
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