linux-kernel - Re: Linux with kvm-intel locks up VMplayer guest is started

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Date:	Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:29:10 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Martin Michlmayr <tbm@...ius.com>
Cc:	Anthony Liguori <anthony@...emonkey.ws>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux with kvm-intel locks up VMplayer guest is started

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:32:34 +0200
Martin Michlmayr <tbm@...ius.com> wrote:

> * Anthony Liguori <anthony@...emonkey.ws> [2008-06-17 08:16]:
> > VMware is a binary kernel module that's out of kernel.  KVM is not
> > misbehaving and the fact that VMware breaks when the KVM module is
> > loaded isn't our problem.  If they submitted their code for
> > inclusion in  mainline, we could possibly come up with solution for
> > arbitrating who is  using VT.
> 
> I feared I'd get a response like this.  But unless this is a known
> issue in VMware (which I don't think it is), you don't know whether
> it's not a bug in kvm-intel.

So ask vmware. They have source to both parts we don't.

And its a bug in vmware by definition. If the emulator differs from the
real thing then the emulator is at fault. It might well be that the limit
is a genuine technical limit - but its still an emulator fault.

Alan
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