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Message-ID: <86802c440810031458s1ce79589s2448aa0869a74e21@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 14:58:41 -0700 From: "Yinghai Lu" <yinghai@...nel.org> To: "Zachary Amsden" <zach@...are.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, "Vivek Goyal" <vgoyal@...hat.com>, "Alok Kataria" <akataria@...are.com>, "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "kexec@...ts.infradead.org" <kexec@...ts.infradead.org> Subject: Re: kexec with vmware esx 3.0.2 On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 14:40 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com> wrote: >> > On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 14:08 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: >> >> anyone tried to use linux kernel to kexec vmware esx? >> > >> > That would not be a recommended practice. It might work. It should not >> > be very useful. >> > >> >> esx 3.0.2 relys on correct mps table, >> could boot linux with update_mptable or alloc_mptable, and then load >> vmware with kexec. > > And end up running ESX on hardware where it is not supported and you > already have a buggy BIOS? BIOS is not buggy... vmware seems not to be smart enough to correct pic mode. because current linux kernel could works well with acpi=off YH -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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