Re: [ANNOUNCE] Cooperative Linux

From: Omkhar Arasaratnam
Date: Mon Jan 26 2004 - 15:06:52 EST


On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 14:44, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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)?

Christoph http://www.vmware.com/download/open_sources.html shows the
kernel mods as well as others....

Omkhar

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