VMware demos hypervisor running on a network card

By Simon Sharwood on Mar 19, 2019 2:10PM

Yes, a network card, for very edgy use cases.

VMware has demonstrated Linux running on a network card. Speaking at the VMware user group convention in Sydney today, Chris Wolf, chief technology officer, global field and industry demonstrated a VMware’s ESXi hypervisor and a Ubuntu guest VM running on a Mellanox SmartNIC. The SmartNIC ...

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