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one shot remote root for linux?
- Subject: one shot remote root for linux?
- From: andre at operations.net (Andre Gironda)
- Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:19:19 -0700
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <B75E03EB8D7BCE419496BC89D272087304C2E0EC@ALNEXCHMB03.ena.us.experian.local> <[email protected]> <0a0301c9c87e$a6f1aaa0$f4d4ffe0$@net> <[email protected]>
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Paul Jakma <paul at 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