Re:VMWare Taken to Court Over GPL Violation
by fl0wenol on Thursday March 05, 2015 @04:21PM
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What's curious is that VMkernel's "personality" for ESXi userworlds (which are analogous to sessions IIRC) is it implements the x64 Linux ABI, with some signal/syscalls masked.
I don't know if this was to make the transition for stuff like vpxa from ESX 4 on easier internally, or to make it easier for 3rd parties to develop against, or both.
Is it lazily wrapping some functionality that should be open sourced that fills in where the service console would normally be? Probably not, but I can see why people would be a little suspicious.
I don't know if this was to make the transition for stuff like vpxa from ESX 4 on easier internally, or to make it easier for 3rd parties to develop against, or both.
Is it lazily wrapping some functionality that should be open sourced that fills in where the service console would normally be? Probably not, but I can see why people would be a little suspicious.