[Info-vax] VMWARE/ESXi Linux

[Dave Froble]

On 12/3/2024 9:40 AM, Arne Vajhøj 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.
>
> Arne
>

Is that a hard rule?  I doubt it.

Though, some may feel that the "type 1" (whatever that really is, or matters) 
might be a bit safer ...

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