[ale] vmware kernel

[Greg Freemyer]

Very small subset of drivers.

ie. I don't think you can have virtual machines hosted on anything but
just a few types of scsi controllers.  I don't think any ide / sata
controllers are supported except to hold the hypervisor itelf.  (Per a
several month old requirements doc I was looking at last week.  Not
sure hypervisor is a vmware term, but obviously the same concept
applies.)

Greg

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Christopher Fowler
<cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> Jonathan Rickman wrote:
>> VMWare ESX is NOT...repeat NOT...Linux. Never has been. The best way I
>> can think of to explain it is as follows:
>>
>> Once upon a time, Linux was used to load the VMWare kernel, much as
>> MS-DOS was used to load Novell Netware back in the day. That is no
>> longer even the case. VMWare ESX is a distinct operating system. The
>> confusion is a result of their choice of a Linux virtual machine to
>> act as the built in console, through which administrative tasks are
>> performed. Even that is no longer necessarily the case, depending on
>> which version you are using.
>>
> What confuses me are drivers.
>
> Does ESX implement drivers for all possible hardware?  Or is
> there a small number of supported mother boards in which they've
> written drivers for?
>
>
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