[114076] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: one shot remote root for linux?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Jakma)
Thu Apr 30 15:53:25 2009
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:52:46 +0100 (BST)
From: Paul Jakma <paul@jakma.org>
To: Andre Gironda <andre@operations.net>
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On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Andre Gironda wrote:
> 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.
So it's a VM, which is required to be booted in order to be able to
load the hypervisor? Seems an unusual definition of VM to me..
Also, which code handles the I/O to load the other, less special,
VMs? The Linux fs and block layer, or the VMWare hypervisor?
Anyway, I fear we're about to be kicked into touch by the
moderators..
regards,
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