[Info-vax] VMWARE/ESXi Linux

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/3/2024 10:36 AM, Dan Cross wrote:
> In article <vin597$3sjr$2 at dont-email.me>,
> Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 12/2/2024 11:57 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> On Tue, 3 Dec 2024 03:09:15 -0000 (UTC), Waldek Hebisch wrote:
>>>>   From what you wrote seem that ESXi is more similar to Xen than to
>>>> KVM+qemu, that is ESXi and Xen discourage running unvirtualized programs
>>>> while in KVM+qemu some (frequently most) programs is running
>>>> unvirtualized and only rest is virtualized.
>>>
>>> I think that dates back to the old distinction between “type 1” and “type
>>> 2“ hypervisors. It’s an obsolete distinction nowadays.
>>
>> No.
>>
>> If you look at what is available and what it is used for then you will
>> see that what is labeled type 1 is used for production and what is
>> labeled type 2 is used for development. It matters.
> 
> No, that has nothing to do with it.

Yes. It has.

The question was whether the type 1 vs type 2 distinction is obsolete.

The fact that "what is labeled type 1 is used for production and what is
labeled type 2 is used for development" proves that people think it
matters.

So either almost everybody is wrong or it matters.

Arne