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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: VMWARE/ESXi Linux
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2024 20:24:19 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 3 Dec 2024 09:40:40 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> If you look at what is available and what it is used for then you will
> see that what is labeled type 1 is used for production and what is
> labeled type 2 is used for development. It matters.

What people discovered was, they needed to run full-fat system management 
suites, reporting tools, backup/maintenance tools etc on the hypervisor. 
In other words, all the regular filesystem-management functions you need 
on any server machine. So having it be a cut-down kernel (“type 1”) didn’t 
cut it any more -- virtualization is nowadays done on full-function Linux 
kernels (all “type 2”).

That’s why the distinction is obsolete.