In my opinion, Bare Metal means that the virtualization engine provides an iplable (bootable) operating system, and does not require an OS between it and the hardware. By that definition, the requirement for a "barebones RH Linux" causes VMWare to miss this requirement.
Wayne Driscoll Product Developer NOTE: All opinions are strictly my own. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich Smrcina Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 10:35 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Virtual Chase, John wrote: > > Does VMWare run on "bare metal" yet? > Well, I guess that depends upon your definition of 'bare metal'. (What is 'is'?) For a very long time VMWare would install a modified pretty barebones RH Linux and VMWare on top of that. From there you could create/install virtual machines. That is their VMWare ESX product. Now they have a free version of it called VMware ESXi. -- Rich Smrcina VM Assist, Inc. Phone: 414-491-6001 Ans Service: 360-715-2467 rich.smrcina at vmassist.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/richsmrcina Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org WAVV 2009 - Orlando, FL - May 15-19, 2009 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
