[ale] vmware kernel

[Christopher Fowler]

Geoffrey wrote:
> I've been doing some research on vmware in order to compare it to Xen, 
> and can't seem to find a critical piece of info I'm looking for.  As I 
> recall, vmware is based on a linux kernel, thus the following questions:
>
> 1. Is vmware still based on Linux?
>   
No.  It runs in either Windows or Linux.  
> 2. Why do they not publish their code?
>   
It is their code.  It is proprietary.  Some products they
give for free some you pay for.  There is no obligation that
you can have their code.

> 3. Is it possible it's based on another OS, say, bsd?
>   
I doubt it.  This would require compiling under that system and
again, you don't have the code.  There is VMWare fusion that
will run under OSX.