Re: [kvm-devel] Vmware ESX under KVM - guest GPF in installer

[Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>]

Ian Kirk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wanted to try running Vmware ESX without the effort of finding a
> physical machine. Googling around I found that it is possible to run ESX
> under other hypervisors/emulators, e.g. Vmware Workstation. So I thought
> i'd give KVM a go.
>
> Using kvm-66 on 2.6.24.4-64.fc8PAE, the (mostly text mode) installer
> crashes after starting with "esx text". (I can't easily test kvm-68 at the
> mo due to needing to do a reboot of the host)
>
> Microsoft Virtual Server R2-SP1 kinda works, however the virtual NIC
> is unsupported by the ESX installer.
>
> Qemu 0.9.1 (for Windows) fails at a similar point.
>
> Is this a "fixed in newer kvm" or a generic problem (be it kvm or ESX
> installer CDROM kernel) ?
>
> I hadn't even got as far as installing/running ESX.
>
> Regards,
> Ian
>
>
> host dmesg says:
> kvm: emulating exchange as write
> kvm: 9329: cpu0 unhandled rdmsr: 0xc0000080
> kvm: 9350: cpu0 unhandled rdmsr: 0xc0000080
>   

Yes, EFER support was added recently.  Are you using the modules from 
kvm-66 or from your host kernel?

Please try kvm-66's modules and report.  I was able to boot the esx 
installer (I had to specify -smp 2 as there seem to be problems with the 
mptable on uniprocessors).

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