[GTALUG] VMware ESXi Licensing and Quality

[Alvin Starr]

On 10/16/2017 02:37 PM, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 03:23:50PM -0400, Clifford Ilkay via talk wrote:
>> ESXi 6.5 runs on a Linux kernel. I have no idea if they've modified the
>> kernel and if they have, if they contribute their changes to upstream as
>> they are required to do under the terms of the GPL.
> Actually it does not.  It uses some linux device drivers, but not a
> linux kernel.
>
That's kind of interesting.
Usually device drivers are intimately tied to the OS's design.
What OS are they using?

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