Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 19:44:08 +0000
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Cooperative Linux
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On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 09:00:22AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 08:59:52PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> >> For what it's worth, this has been done in the proprietary world
> >> as successful commercial software, as VMware ESX Server.
> >
> > Which seems to be nothing more than a hacked up Linux..
> 
> Not even close to true.  ESX Server includes a hacked up Linux as
> part of its front end, but there's a lot more than that.

Well, I've only seen their driver API is the linux API with slight changes.
Can you elaborate what "includes a hacked up Linux as part of its front end"
means and where we can get the source to the rest of this frontend (and
the linux changes)?

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