On 4/30/05, guy keren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Gil Freund wrote: > > > On 4/29/05, guy keren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > consider the differences between suzuky swift and suzuky baleno. the swift > has all the functionality of the baleno - they both have 4 wheels, an > engine, a roof, 4 doors... oops, the swift actually has 5 doors - so it's > better, isn't it? again, a marketing decision ;)
This is a great analogy. 4 vs. 5 door is has a difference in functionally and engineering (not to mention the fact that 5 door models also have a rear windshield wiper...) > > > > note: i didn't deal with GSX other thenreading about it. i did, however, > > > had the "pleasure" of trying to disect ESX for some purpose, and was quite > > > surprised to find how it works. > > > > If I understand you correctly, then ESX is similar to XEN in the sence > > that there is another Kernel running in ring 0 and that the console OS > > is a privileged (Dom0 in XEN talk) guest. > > GSX would then be closer in concept to UML or QEMU. > > the console OS is a console OS, not a guest OS. it gets access to the > hardware via a completely different route. how exactly? that's beyond me. > > whether ESX works as XEN or not - i can only guess. > > you can download an evaluation version of ESX (you might need to talk to > vmware to get an eval key). you can also scan vmwre's web site for the > open-source part of their system (i.e. the changes they made to the linux > kernel and to various applications such as apache) and through that gain > some understanding about the internal workings. good luck finding the URL > - it's "hidden" in the README file you get with the ESX instalation CD ;) > > -- > guy > > "For world domination - press 1, > or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy > ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
