[Info-vax] VMWARE/ESXi Linux

John Dallman jgd at cix.co.uk
Wed Nov 27 17:24:00 EST 2024


In article <vi84pm$6ct6$4 at dont-email.me>, ldo at nz.invalid (Lawrence
D'Oliveiro) wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:33:56 -0500, David Turner wrote:
> > I keep being told that VMWARE is not an OS in itself.
> > But it is... based on Ubuntu Kernel....  stripped down but still 
> > Linux
> 
> And not even using the native KVM virtualization architecture that 
> is built into Linux.

History: VMware ESXi was released in 2001 and KVM was merged into the
Linux kernel in 2007. 

John 


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