Kielek, Samuel wrote: > That is incorrect. ESX does not run on Red Hat or any other Linux based > OS. I think you are referring to the service console which is based off > of an older version of Red Hat (7.x). However, the service console is > not required for operation. In fact, you can shut the service console > down altogether and your guests will continue to run just fine. I think > people mistakenly think that the ESX hypervisor runs under Linux because > it uses a familiar Linux bootstrap process, but that is where the > similarity ends.. No it is very correct. VMware ESX is a distribution based on the Linux Kernel. "The ESX software is based on a Linux kernel, and installation on our test system - an eight-way IBM x440 server, detailed below - took about 15 minutes. Once installed, ESX is managed from a Web-based console, and virtual machines are accessed using network-based remote control tools. Several guest operating systems are supported, including Windows, Linux and NetWare. The most notable omission is Solaris x86."
quoted from: http://www.itweek.co.uk/itweek/software/2085877/vmware-esx-server cheers, Carsten -- Carsten Otte IBM Linux technology center ARCH=s390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
