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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Cooperative Linux
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 19:44:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040126194408.A3450@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8765ey3as9.fsf@pfaff.stanford.edu>; from blp@cs.stanford.edu on Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 09:00:22AM -0800

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)?


  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-26 19:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-25 19:35 [ANNOUNCE] Cooperative Linux Dan Aloni
2004-01-25 20:01 ` Karim Yaghmour
2004-01-26  3:40 ` Nuno Silva
2004-01-26  3:57   ` JustFillBug
2004-01-26  4:59     ` Ben Pfaff
2004-01-26  9:19       ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-26 17:00         ` Ben Pfaff
2004-01-26 19:44           ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-01-26 20:04             ` Omkhar Arasaratnam
2004-01-26  5:04     ` Karim Yaghmour
2004-01-26  5:06     ` Nuno Silva
2004-01-26  6:36       ` Karim Yaghmour
2004-01-26 11:35         ` Rik van Riel
2004-01-26 15:20           ` Karim Yaghmour
2004-01-26 11:32     ` Rik van Riel
2004-01-27  0:20       ` David Schwartz
2004-01-26  4:26   ` Dan Aloni
2004-01-26  5:01     ` Karim Yaghmour
2004-01-26  7:23       ` Dan Aloni
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-29  5:57 Paul Zimmerman
2004-01-29  9:10 ` Dan Aloni

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