Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Running VMware Server on Devil-Linux

[Bruce S. <bw...@re...>]

>>Under the hood, ESX and ESXi are really Linux, so it seems silly to me
>>that it requires a Windows client to admin the server.
>
> I wondered about this, because ESXi claims one of its differences with
> ESX is that it doesn't rely on an underlying OS. To which I thought: eh?

They try to hide it, but it's still Linux (or based on Linux).  A more
stripped down version of Linux, but still Linux.  There is a hack you
can do to let you SSH into ESXi and get a shell prompt to prove it to
yourself.

 - BS