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Using VBox without host
Posted: 29. May 2009, 17:09
by joaocarlos86
All,
somebody know how to use VBox without host?!
I want to install VBox like the VMWare ESXi, and make virtual machines works without any host.
Thks!
Re: Using VBox without host
Posted: 29. May 2009, 19:29
by baf
Not possible at all.
You must have a host.
Re: Using VBox without host
Posted: 29. May 2009, 20:07
by stefan.becker
VMWARE ESX has a Host, too.
Its a minimal linux integrated in the packages.
Re: Using VBox without host
Posted: 29. May 2009, 20:39
by joaocarlos86
THKS!!!!
Re: Using VBox without host
Posted: 30. May 2009, 12:25
by Martin
stefan.becker wrote:VMWARE ESX has a Host, too.
Its a minimal linux integrated in the packages.
Technically incorrect. ESX is using a Linux VM for some management functions. The vmkernel is running directly on the HW. In earlier versions a modified Linux loader was used to start the vmkernel, now ESX has its own loader.
Martin
Re: Using VBox without host
Posted: 30. May 2009, 12:29
by stefan.becker
What do you think what the loader is?
Re: Using VBox without host
Posted: 11. Jun 2009, 06:34
by NeBlackCat
A few months ago someone posted that they'd made an ultra-stripped down Linux-based VBox "hypervisor", you could try searching for that.
EDIT: I think it was
this