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Re: one shot remote root for linux?
From: Andre Gironda <andre () operations net>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:19:19 -0700
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Paul Jakma <paul () jakma org> wrote:
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Gregory Boehnlein wrote:It is a common misconception that the ESX Hypervisor is Linux based, but that is an urban legend.Is the ESX Hypervisor useful without the Linux layer? Then, to what extent do "based on" and "depends on" differ in the context of software?
ESXi doesn't require much Linux (just busybox), but I think the point is that the VMkernel (the hypervisor) and the service console (Linux) are separate entities. The SC is really a VM, so it depends more on VMkernel than VMkernel depends on it. dre
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