On 5/31/07, crypticreign <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello KPLUG and Mark, Mark Schoonover wrote: > Pretty cool stuff actually, XEN or VMware. VMware itself is a customized > version of RH7, IIRC.... VMWare ESX 3 has a "service console" that is based off of RHEL 3. The stuff that does the real work is VMWare proprietary. -cr
It depends on which version of VMware you're using. I'm using ESX 2.5.2-16390 at the moment. It's based on RH 7.2, or RH AS/ES/WS 2.1 running a modified 2.4.9 kernel. According to the kernel sources from www.vmware.com, they modify the 2.4.9 kernel for vmnix kernel, anaconda-7.2 installer. It also uses vmklinux based on 2.2 and 2.4 kernel code, with the appropriate insmod called vmkload_mod. VMware also custom rrdtool and wu-ftpd, probably to handle vmfs properly. They also create esxtop - new to me actually - to replace the standard top command. I said a few emails back that this machine was using something like 120MB of swap, with 6GB RAM installed. Using esxtop, it's actually using no swap at this time, with 7 virtual machines going. Some of the VMware specific things running are vmware-serverd, vmware-vmx, vmfs_flush, vmklogger and vmware-mks. That's all the proprietary stuff to run ESX. -- Mark Schoonover, CMDBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 619-368-0099 * software development * systems/database administration * networking * security * -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
