From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: Booting ESXi from within KVM Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:27:53 +0300 Message-ID: <48B16FE9.4080301@qumranet.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Ian Kirk Return-path: Received: from il.qumranet.com ([212.179.150.194]:48545 "EHLO il.qumranet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751328AbYHXO1y (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:27:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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