Re: VMWARE/ESXi Linux

On 12/3/2024 9:40 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

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.

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

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No.
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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.
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Arne
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Is that a hard rule?  I doubt it.
Though, some may feel that the "type 1" (whatever that really is, or matters) might be a bit safer ...
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