From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG  Wed Nov 21 07:19:44 2007
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 310A516A41A
	for <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:19:44 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com)
Received: from smtp4-g19.free.fr (smtp4-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.30])
	by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECFCA13C4C4
	for <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:19:43 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com)
Received: from smtp4-g19.free.fr (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
	by smtp4-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EE4D3EA0AA
	for <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:19:42 +0100 (CET)
Received: from mail.herbelot.nom (bne75-4-82-227-159-103.fbx.proxad.net
	[82.227.159.103])
	by smtp4-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 313543EA0A7
	for <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:19:41 +0100 (CET)
Received: from diversion.herbelot.nom (diversion.herbelot.nom [192.168.2.6])
	by mail.herbelot.nom (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lAL7JYEr021968;
	Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:19:35 +0100 (CET)
From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com>
To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:19:26 +0100
User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7
References: <4743C25D.9060308@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <4743C25D.9060308@elischer.org>
X-Warning: Windows can lose your files
X-Op-Sys: Le FriBi de la mort qui tue
X-Org: TfH&Co
X-MailScanner: Found to be clean
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
  charset="windows-1252"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-Disposition: inline
Message-Id: <200711210819.28098.thierry@herbelot.com>
Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Subject: Re: vmware and FreeBSD. HUH?
X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
Reply-To: thierry@herbelot.com
List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current
	<freebsd-current.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>,
	<mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:19:44 -0000

Le Wednesday 21 November 2007, Julian Elischer a écrit :
> From http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=183
>
> "While VMware has a high-end ESX server product that doesn’t rely on
> any commodity operating system, it is still running a stripped down
> version of FreeBSD."
>
I remembre reading ESX was more like a stripped-down 2.4 linux kernel (with 
the GPL implications ;-))

(or the "vmkernel" of ESX is the FreeBSD-based-part ?)

	TfH

http://www.venturecake.com/the-vmware-house-of-cards/