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

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Date:	Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:32:34 +0200
From:	Martin Michlmayr <tbm@...ius.com>
To:	Anthony Liguori <anthony@...emonkey.ws>
Cc:	kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux with kvm-intel locks up VMplayer guest is started

* 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.

-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/
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