Re: KVM and VMware

[Manfred_Knick <Manfred.Knick@T-Online.de>]

Avi Kivity schrieb:
> Manfred_Knick wrote:
>> I have successfully enjoyed KVM for para-virtualized Linux guests :))
>> ...
>> ==> "You cannot install on a system with KVM enabled."
>>...
>> KVM likes to hang onto the virtualization root mode aggressively for a
>> minor performance gain.  (*)
>> ...
>> A) Is (*) correct?
> Yes.
>> B) Any chance to solve this problem?
> 'rmmod kvm-intel; rmmod kvm' should work.

Avi,
thanks a lot for your _very_ speedy response!!

So I take it that
--> "You can't have them both at once, at the same time"
which turns out to be really unfortunate for my tasks.

ERGO: what I'm going to try is:

o) delete all static kvm stuff in the kernel .config / rebuild / reboot
o) un-merge app-emulation/kvm-84 "without modules"
o) emerge vmware-workstation
o) emerge   app-emulation/kvm-84 "with modules"
o) don't auto-load kvm and kvm-[intel|amd]
o) !! EITHER start vmware
o) !! OR load / start KVM,
o) !! thus manually avoiding those threatening kernel lockups.


Are there any plans @ KVM to change the (*) behavior in the future,
e.g. switching in and out of root mode each time
so as to not conflict with other virtualization software?