Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Cooperative Linux
From: Omkhar Arasaratnam <iamroot@ca.ibm.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 14:44, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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)?

Christoph http://www.vmware.com/download/open_sources.html shows the
kernel mods as well as others....
 
Omkhar

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