Re: [ovirt-users] New member and first question...

FYI: actually the vmware kernel leverages many open source drivers from the linux kernel and I highly suspect that it is in fact a custom linux kernel. some evidence that supports this view is the recent attempt of vmware to join the linux-distros mailinglist to get early access to vulnerabilities in open source code. you can just join this list if you offer a kind of "linux" distribution (or something very close to it). here is a thread for further reading on the case: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/403 PS: regarding ovirt-node: it's actually a very trimmed down linux system, just enough to act as an hypervisor, so it's bare metal virtualization (I would even argue that there is no such thing as a type 1 hypervisor, because if you talk about type 1 hypervisors the hypervisor itself is the operating system kernel, which is also the case for kvm, as it is a linux kernel module).