Re: [Xen-users] VMWare ESX on Xen (maybe OT)

[Mark Foster <mark@xxxxxxxxx>]

carlopmart wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>  I will want to try VMWare ESX to test new features but I do not have a
> server that meets the ESX requeriments ... but is it possible to run ESX
> under Xen (maybe a silly question)?
> 

Not possible, as ESX is a closed-source linux kernel module. I've always
wondered how they got around the GPL. Anyway you could probably run Xen
in an ESX VM but not the other way around.

-- 
Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints...
Mark D. Foster, CISSP <mark@xxxxxxxxx>  http://mark.foster.cc/


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