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Date:      Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:35:59 +1100 (AUS Eastern Daylight Time)
From:      Peter Ross <Peter.Ross@alumni.tu-berlin.de>
To:        Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Subject:   Re: vmware and FreeBSD. HUH?
Message-ID:  <Pine.WNT.4.64.0711211830580.1892@9N5CK1S.lpint.net>
In-Reply-To: <200711210819.28098.thierry@herbelot.com>
References:  <4743C25D.9060308@elischer.org>  <200711210819.28098.thierry@herbelot.com>

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On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Thierry Herbelot wrote:

> 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 ;-))

I just logged into the service console of a ESX 3.0 box:

# uname -a
Linux myhostname 2.4.21-47.0.1.ELvmnix #1 Thu Jul 26 13:26:41 PDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Regards
Peter
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