VMWare Inc Interview Question for Software Engineer / Developers






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1. Monolithic : Like Linux, basic components like memory addressing, process management etc and modules will be part of the kernel. If one thing crashes, everything crashes.
2. Microkernel : Like MacOS, only basic components are part of the kernel. Other functions like hardware addressing are not managed by the kernel.
3. Hybrid kernel : A mixture of the above two.
4. Exokernel : Still under experimentation. Trying to run different kinds of OS on a single platform using an extensively rich API library.

- Sam January 20, 2010 | Flag Reply
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MacOS is not a mikrokernel - both mach and BSD parts are in monolithic a.out.

- Anonymous April 08, 2010 | Flag Reply
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MacOS - Microkernel

it (dot) toolbox.com/wiki/index.php/Kinds_of_Kernels

- AgnelCodes July 18, 2010 | Flag Reply
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Mac is not micro kernel

- Anonymous September 08, 2010 | Flag Reply
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it isn't 'Mac', it is 'Mach' developed at CMU, is a microkernel.
Ref:
Mach: A New Kernel Foundation for UNIX Development (1986)
by Mike Accetta , Robert Baron , William Bolosky , David Golub , Richard Rashid , Avadis Tevanian , Michael Young

- Anonymous February 11, 2011 | Flag Reply


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