On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Paul Jakma <p...@jakma.org> wrote: > On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Gregory Boehnlein wrote: >> It is a common misconception that the ESX Hypervisor is Linux based, but >> that is an urban legend. > > Is the ESX Hypervisor useful without the Linux layer? Then, to what extent > do "based on" and "depends on" differ in the context of software?
ESXi doesn't require much Linux (just busybox), but I think the point is that the VMkernel (the hypervisor) and the service console (Linux) are separate entities. The SC is really a VM, so it depends more on VMkernel than VMkernel depends on it. dre