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When I was in one of the vSphere training classes the instructor informed us that the hypervisor is completely homegrown and that only the Management Console (w
by sangaya 16y ago
When I was in one of the vSphere training classes the instructor informed us that the hypervisor is completely homegrown and that only the Management Console (which is a VM that provides CLI access) runs on top of a Linux kernel.
- arethuza 16y agoThat was my understanding - that Linux instance is really a special purpose guest running "alongside" the other guests on top of the hypervisor.
- nailer 16y agoIf you watch ESX boot, the Linux kernel starts first - the 'VMkernel' is started via the vmkmod.ko module. Not saying that VMware Inc are wrong, but Linux runs VMkernel. VMkernel may them 'subsume' its parent kernel somehow but I'm not sure how they'd accomplish this, nor do VMware like talking about how this is achieved.
- arethuza 16y agoThe way someone explained it to me is that the Linux kernel loads the hypervisor "under" itself.
- fname 16y agoI was referring to the Management Console.