From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Michlmayr Subject: Re: Linux with kvm-intel locks up VMplayer guest is started Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:44:52 +0200 Message-ID: <20080617134452.GA4836@deprecation.cyrius.com> References: <20080616150550.GA16086@deprecation.cyrius.com> <48568503.90607@codemonkey.ws> <20080617123918.GA2397@deprecation.cyrius.com> <4857B92F.9020309@codemonkey.ws> <20080617133234.GE2397@deprecation.cyrius.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Anthony Liguori Return-path: Received: from sorrow.cyrius.com ([65.19.161.204]:2242 "EHLO sorrow.cyrius.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754686AbYFQNwl (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:52:41 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080617133234.GE2397@deprecation.cyrius.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: * Martin Michlmayr [2008-06-17 15:32]: > * Anthony Liguori [2008-06-17 08:16]: > > VMware is a binary kernel module that's out of kernel. KVM is not > > misbehaving and the fact that VMware breaks when the KVM module is > > loaded isn't our problem. If they submitted their code for > > inclusion in mainline, we could possibly come up with solution for > > arbitrating who is using VT. > > I feared I'd get a response like this. But unless this is a known > issue in VMware (which I don't think it is), you don't know whether > it's not a bug in kvm-intel. Sorry, Anthony, I just realized I misparsed your response. So you're saying that it's a known issue and that VMware is the problem. Thanks a lot! I'll take it up with VMware. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/