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Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:08:51 -0700 From: Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com> To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> 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, 2008-10-03 at 14:58 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: > 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 BIOS is missing correct MP table. Thus buggy. You should not be trying to run ESX on buggy hardware. Zach -- 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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