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

[Sven Kieske]

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).

HTH

Am 07.08.2014 14:03, schrieb Gianluca Cecchi:
> VMware says esxi is a bare-metal hypervisor and there is not an underlying
> os. Someone else says it is based on vmkernel operating system ( where
> vmkernel is defined as a posix-like operating system).
> In my opinion the oVirt node is to be intended something like ESXi: an os
> with the smallest possible footprint, dedicated to run as a KVM hypervisor.
> The difference being that it is based on Linux and not developed from
> scratch.

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