[CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

[Scott Robbins]

On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 11:04:51AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:46 AM,  <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
> 
> 
> > And yes, I'm well aware that ESXi is a modified version of, mmm, is it
> > still RHEL 3, or have they gone up yet?
> 
> The linux components were just for the shell-level interaction and I
> think they are mostly gone now.   In any case, they don't have
> security updates nearly as often as RHEL/Centos pushes a new kernel
> which is an advantage for uptime on the guests.

If I remember correctly (but I'm no longer at that job, so don't have
access to double check) around VMware 4.x or 5.x it no longer had a Linux
shell.  Although there are still some commands that work, I _think_ that
it's now a very stripped down shell, as opposed to 3.5 which had all the
commands available in a Linux shell. So, if I am correct, then Les has
summed it up nicely.


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