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VMware just created its first Linux OS and it's rubbish
- mkesper 12y agoThe comments at LWN.net give more insight then the original article at NetWorkWorld (http://www.networkworld.com/article/2911944/virtualization/vmware-just-created-its-first-linux-os-and-its-container-friendly.html http://www.networkworld.com/article/2911944/virtualization/v...)
- chronid 12y agoQuoting a comment: In other words, perfectly ordinary behavior in the proprietary world. I spend 90% of my time at work fighting monsters like that (another juicy example: a proprietary and broken pseudo-clones of yum born from an intern's summer project 4-5 years ago).
- antocv 12y agoSame here, the shit I put up with...
- chippy 12y agoTitle should be the original title, really... "VMware just created its first Linux OS, and it’s container-friendly"
- onli 12y agoNot really, as the submission is not the article, but the comment below.
- mdekkers 12y agoI stopped reading the press release when I read "yum" and "rpm" -- this thing needs Ubuntu as the build-OS btw...
- kondor6c 12y agoWhy? RPM based distributions are running in the majority of companies, and VMWare targets companies that can afford to pay it's licensing structure.
- wernercd 12y agoINFIDEL! Don't you know that Ubuntu is the One True distro? All others are a sham! REPENT OR DIE! DURKA DURKA UBUNTU JIHAD!
- icebraining 12y agoThen why does it require Ubuntu?
- kondor6c 12y agoI don't know, poor documentation? the toolchain check works for me on Fedora 20. I think it was a silly reason to stop reading the article so early at the mention of "yum"
- mdekkers 12y agoI don't like RPM or Yum. In my experience with using it, it has usually done more harm than good. What other companies use is up to them, but it isn't suitable for me. Argumentum ad populum is a fallacy.
- astkel 12y agoThis isn't surprising to me, coming from VMWare. Try using an API for any of their software projects. They break the principle of least surprise far too often.
- nailer 12y agoSide note: VMware ESX was a Linux based OS (yes, vmlinuz loaded vmware via kernel modules, not the other way around as VMware likes to tell people, you can see this if you watch ESX boot).
- jkot 12y agoI did some development for that, it is based on Redhat.
- derekp7 12y agoI think their claim is that once the vmware modules load, they insert themselves under the Linux kernel (so Linux then acts like a dom0, similar to how Xen uses it). In that case, it would be in concept the same as one Linux kernel booting, and kexec'ing a second kernel.
- hnmullany 12y agoThis is a persistent and incorrect story. The proprietary esx kernel takes over from the initial linux boot. The esx kernel schedules running VMs, not the linux kernel.
- nailer 12y agoThat may or may not be true, but it doesn't affect that the Linux kernel module interface is a really bad place to put your valuable, proprietary, until ESXi not-ported-elsewhere IP.
- mdeslaur 12y agoWhat a misleading title.
- ansible 12y agoSo is there anything to recommend Photon vs. something like RancherOS other than better integration with VMware?
- gaius 12y agoFlagged for misleading headline