[CentOS] VMWare Sandbox

Fri Oct 31 03:45:44 UTC 2008
nate <centos at linuxpowered.net>

Rainer Duffner wrote:

> VMware Server needs some OS as base (CentOS5 should do well), but 3i
> goes on the bare metal - it's based on RHEL, too, though.

ESX is not based on linux at all. ESX(not ESXi) includes
a service console that is based off of RHEL-3 though
that is for management only, virtualization runs entirely
within the hypervisor which is transparent to the user.

There is also a linux compatibility layer I believe for
drivers.

ESXi did away with the service console concept almost
entirely.

nate