Carsten, Using the same thread you are referencing, please read the responses from Paulo Meireles and I think you will see that he is very clearly stating the opposite of what your are saying. The use of Linux is done as a convenience, not a requirement. BTW, I don't believe these are VMWare developers... The vmkernel is proprietary and you will rarely see (if ever) real (EMC/VMWare) developers discussing its internals.
Regards, Sam -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carsten Otte Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 11:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Fwd: Re: z/Linux to p/Linux] Meanor, Tim wrote: > The service console in ESX is a minimal RH 7.2 OS. It's purpose is to > bootstrap the hardware, then turn over control to the ESX kernel and > resource manager. So IT Week is incorrect in referring to ESX as "based > on a Linux kernel". For more information, see > http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx2_performance_implications.pdf. May I counter that one with a discussion involving some VMware developers? It _is_ based on Linux, won't even boot without Linux, and requires a Linux kernel to be present permanently. A long detailed discussion about the techs involved: http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=27412 -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
