Re: VMWARE/ESXi Linux

On 12/2/2024 11:57 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 3 Dec 2024 03:09:15 -0000 (UTC), Waldek Hebisch wrote:

 From what you wrote seem that ESXi is more similar to Xen than to
KVM+qemu, that is ESXi and Xen discourage running unvirtualized programs
while in KVM+qemu some (frequently most) programs is running
unvirtualized and only rest is virtualized.

 I think that dates back to the old distinction between “type 1” and “type
2“ hypervisors. It’s an obsolete distinction nowadays.

No.
If you look at what is available and what it is used for then you will
see that what is labeled type 1 is used for production and what is
labeled type 2 is used for development. It matters.
Arne