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Re: [Xen-users] Is Xen really a Type 1 Hypervisor?



On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:12 AM, eva <evammg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sorry for my ignorance. But I thought ESXi was based on RedHat, ..so I
> thought it could benefit itself from the drivers that Linux uses,
> because is Red Hat (?)

there's not much information about how close to Linux is the control
system of VMWare.  there has been some accusations of GPL
noncompliance, after all.   but still, i guess they heavily modify the
kernel and drivers, so they only maintain a very small subset of them.

-- 
Javier

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