VMware may infringe the Linux copyright

VMware's IPO (initial public offerings) has been sought after and may become one of the best technology-class stocks since Google. The Dow Jones average fell more than 200 points on Tuesday, but VMware

VMware's IPO (initial public offerings) has been sought after and may become one of the best technology-class stocks since Google.

The Dow Jones average fell more than 200 points on Tuesday, but VMware's IPO was also quite successful, making investors more eager to see the opportunities brought by virtualization technology, on the cloudy Tuesday Wall Street market, VMware's IPO went viral.

On that day, VMware closed at $51 per share, up 75% from the price listed at $29 per share. on that day, the Dow Jones industrial average fell by 207.61 points, or 1.57%, the report was received at 13028.92. In addition, the IPO of VMware has also set off a rise in the virtualization software vendor sector, expanding the recognition of virtualization technology in the technology industry and the investment industry.

Mike Grandinetti, marketing director of Virtual Iron, a virtualization technology startup, said: "I received calls from several Wall Street analysts this morning, they said, 'I want to arrange for you to talk to our institutional investors. '"

However, the voice of questioning has always been around ESX, the company's main product. ESX can run on hardware without any operating system. its kernel is the VMkernel developed by VMware, VMware said it had nothing to do with Windows kernel NTOSKRNL and Linux kernel.

According to VMware, ESX has two kernels that can run directly on hardware-vmkernel and Linux kernel. well-known Linux developer Christopher Hellwig claims that ESX may infringe the copyright of Linux kernel, "If Hellwig is correct, is VMware a product from Linux? Unless vmkernel does not require Linux kernel to be booted,

But the opposite is true. This problem has existed for a long time and VMware has not yet responded to it ."