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Duke Bishop
Duke Bishop

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Enteprise level VMware hypervisors, ESX, ESXi, what programming languages are they programmed in?

I did not see this question/answer anywhere so here it is: Does anybody know what programming languages (or language) the VMware ESX/ESXi hypervisor is programmed in? I am interested in the hypervisor code as well as code in features such as high availability, DRS, fault tolerance, etc. Thank you for your answers.

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P.T.
P.T.

Reputation: 25177

The VMware ESX/ESXi hypervisor, kernel, and device drivers are written in C. The management layers are generally written in C++, but there is a lot of C. Plus there are a lot of of bash, perl, and python scripts.

Upvotes: 5

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