From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Cc: mst@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, aliguori@amazon.com,
armbru@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] -machine vmport=off: Allow disabling of VMWare ioport emulation
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 18:03:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140519170319.GO1302@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1400518826-19144-1-git-send-email-dgilbert@redhat.com>
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 06:00:26PM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git) wrote:
> From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
>
> VMWare apparently doesn't like running under QEMU due to our
> incomplete emulation of it's special IO Port. This adds a
> -machine suboption to allow it to be turned off.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
I was able to use this option in order to install VMware ESXi as a
guest under KVM. Here are my notes on how to do this:
https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2014/05/19/notes-on-getting-vmware-esxi-to-run-under-kvm/#content
Rich.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-19 17:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-19 17:00 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] -machine vmport=off: Allow disabling of VMWare ioport emulation Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-05-19 17:03 ` Richard W.M. Jones [this message]
2014-05-20 7:40 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-05-20 8:47 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-05-20 9:18 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2014-05-20 10:10 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-09-25 13:40 ` Slutz, Donald Christopher
2014-09-25 15:07 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-09-25 17:47 ` Slutz, Donald Christopher
2014-09-25 18:00 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
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