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On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Grant Sewell wrote:
Er, OK. So you're running SBS in a VMWare thingy which is running on-top of Linux, running on x86 hardware.No. I am running SBS in a virtual machine on VMWare ESXi. VMWare ESXi runs on the bare metal - it is not an "application" like VirtualBox.Why aren't you running SBS natively on the hardware without the Linux bit in the middle?There is no Linux bit in the middle, and the reason I am running SBS in a virtual machine is so I can also have a Linux virtual machine running along side it. Much and all as I *love* Windows, I'd rather trust as much as I can to the Linux virtual machine. :DI'm sure there's a good reason though... (e.g. running more than one SBS server and saving hardware?) GordonESXi *officially* is not a Linux system. This can be confusing since ESX (note it lacks the lowercase i) has a hypervisor (the same as ESXi) but also a RedHat based "management" system. ESXi lacks this "management" system. The ESXi system seems to look very much like a Linux system, same files in the same place, executables being listed as Linux ELF binaries, etc, but word from VMWare is that it is *not* a Linux system. *ahem*
OK. I'm completely gob-smacked by this. I guess it's something that the corporate manglement types like.
Although I guess if VMWare are touting it as sort sort of virtual hosting platform and they can get away with it, then ...
ESXi Hypervisor can have SSH enabled (which I have done). Watching the equivalent of "dmesg" when plugging in the USB drive is quite revealing. It recognises that it's a USB storage device but offers no way to mount the filesystem - even when you use the native tools to create an VMFS on there, it still won't mount it. Nor is there the ability to directly pass a USB device to a guest system.
So it is a Linux distro that they've packaged up. Intersting concept. Shame it's crippled by default!
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