> It's also reusing lots of linux code for drivers and subsystems > (illegally, that is)
That's why I said they use Linux as a convenience previously. Why write all their own drivers when the Linux community has done it already seems to be the question they asked themselves. I don't know about the legality of it, but it is the Linux kernel that loads those modules. And there is no Linux code in the vmkernel, nor a dependency on Linux technically (although practically there is as it stands today), so I don't see any GPL issues. But then again I'm just engineer, what do I know of such things? :) -Sam -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port on behalf of Christoph Hellwig Sent: Fri 1/6/2006 5:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: z/Linux to p/Linux On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 10:57:16AM -0500, Kielek, Samuel wrote: > > Actually, it's running on top of a stripped-down Red Hat. > > 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.. It's also reusing lots of linux code for drivers and subsystems (illegally, that is) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
