Re: Booting ESXi from within KVM

[Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>]

Ian Kirk wrote:
> Having given up getting normal ESX booting from within KVM, I thought i'd
> give ESXi a go.
>
> PXE booting the hypervisor image outside of KVM I have working fine.
>
> When trying within KVM i had a few issues:
>
> The 'vmport' breaks ESXi, so for now I commented out vmport_init();
>
> Then it complains about the CPU model_id, so I copy pasted it from my
> host.
>
> Now it gives an error that I don't quite understand:
>
> No pages allocated to Node 0 -- big mismatch between BIOS and SRAT memory
> maps, or MTRR error, or user removed all memory from a Node. Try checking
> memory or upgrading BIOS.
>
>   

Older kvm versions did not support mtrr properly.  what kvm are you running?



-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function