Re: Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

["Tom G. Christensen" <tgc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/09/13 19:33, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 9/6/2013 1:49 AM, Tom G. Christensen wrote:
>> ESXi has a very limited unix userland environment which may or may not
>> be based on RHEL. It's not really meant for general use and I have no
>> experience with it.
>
> its not.   from what all I've been able to tell, its a custom shell
> running in a BSD like environment.  there's no linux kernel in there at all.
>
I never said anything about a Linux kernel, I said userland based on RHEL.

I had a look at it now and while it might not be based on RHEL sources 
it looks like it was built on an RHEL 5 host, judging by the python 
banner which says it was built with
[GCC version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-50]

Most of the standard unix commands are provided by busybox.
But it seems to be using glibc and has initscripts in /etc/init.d 
reminiscent of RHEL, there's even a chkconfig to enable/disable 
services, no runlevels though.
The filesystem layout is much like RHEL and it seems to definitely be a 
Linux userland so IMHO not very BSD like at all.

-tgc

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