one shot remote root for linux?

Thu Apr 30 19:19:19 UTC 2009

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Paul Jakma <paul at jakma.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Gregory Boehnlein wrote:
>> It is a common misconception that the ESX Hypervisor is Linux based, but
>> that is an urban legend.
>
> Is the ESX Hypervisor useful without the Linux layer? Then, to what extent
> do "based on" and "depends on" differ in the context of software?

ESXi doesn't require much Linux (just busybox), but I think the point
is that the VMkernel (the hypervisor) and the service console (Linux)
are separate entities.  The SC is really a VM, so it depends more on
VMkernel than VMkernel depends on it.

dre