On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 08:59:46PM -0700, John R Pierce enlightened us: > nate wrote: > >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. > > > > I've always been curious, in ESX, what manages the physical IO devices, > what provides the actual hardware drivers for things like fiberchannel > cards, network adapters, and so forth? > > does ESX have all its own direct hardware support? > Yes, which is why it runs on such limited hardware. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Systems and Operations Office of Information Technology Ohio University (740) 593-1222 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20081031/02a319ec/attachment-0005.sig>