[114075] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: one shot remote root for linux?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andre Gironda)
Thu Apr 30 15:19:32 2009
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904301827100.3202@melandri.jakma.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:19:19 -0700
From: Andre Gironda <andre@operations.net>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Cc: paul@jakma.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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
