ESX once ran this way, it had native drivers and Linux drivers, where it would run Linux as a vm and have it handle drivers for unsupported hardware. theres som

ESX once ran this way, it had native drivers and Linux drivers, where it would run Linux as a vm and have it handle drivers for unsupported hardware. theres some more documentation on Wikipedia[1], it later switched to using vmklinux as a shim for those drivers. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_ESXi#Architecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_ESXi#Architecture