[Info-vax] VMWARE/ESXi Linux

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 22:24 +0000 (GMT Standard Time), John Dallman wrote:

> 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.

In other words, VMware has long been obsoleted by better solutions.