On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 9:34 AM, William Unruh <un...@invalid.ca> wrote: > On 2014-06-24, Rob <nom...@example.com> wrote: >> It is not possible to run programs on the bare hardware. > > Since the whole VM is a set of programs running on the bare hardware, > this is clearly wrong
Yes but ... sometimes we don't type what we mean to type. To speak to something I'm more familiar with: The objects formerly known as Solaris Logical Domains (LDoms) are set up by the system monitor (Openboot). That in-ROM supervisor cannot run NTP. The so-called primary LDom can run NTP and in fact controls the (only) hardware clock for all other LDoms. Similarly I believe the ESXi hypervisor microkernel is closer to GRUB than an OS. But I have no direct experience -- hence hand-waving. Rob has defined things so they match his world view. While not actually wrong I think this could be misleading. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
