On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 11:31:29AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:02 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > >> Centos. ?VMware ESXi loads as the base OS, so you have to wipe > >> everything and start over. ?The latest release (5.0) claims that > >> virtualization can be 'nested' - that is you could run kvm (etc.) on a > >> guest, although performance probably wouldn't be great. > > > > Any idea what the new version is based on? Is it still a 2.4 kernel (and > > based on RHEL 3)? > Don't think they admit to any relationship to Linux. uname just says > VMkernel 5.0.0 #1 with a build number. Most of the user level > programs are implemented with busybox. It has ssh/scp, but no rsync. Note the "i" in ESXi; this is an "embedded linux" variant. ESX is still RedHat based, to the best of my knowledge. -- rgds Stephen