Re: [ANNOUNCE] Cooperative Linux

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Jan 26 2004 - 14:45:07 EST


On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 09:00:22AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 08:59:52PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> >> For what it's worth, this has been done in the proprietary world
> >> as successful commercial software, as VMware ESX Server.
> >
> > Which seems to be nothing more than a hacked up Linux..
>
> Not even close to true. ESX Server includes a hacked up Linux as
> part of its front end, but there's a lot more than that.

Well, I've only seen their driver API is the linux API with slight changes.
Can you elaborate what "includes a hacked up Linux as part of its front end"
means and where we can get the source to the rest of this frontend (and
the linux changes)?

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/