Re: KVM & VMX root mode

Sander van Leeuwen
2007-09-04T14:16:03Z

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Sander van Leeuwen wrote:
>> You may want to reconsider as KVM breaks VMWare server 1.3 on 64 bits
>> linux hosts as well. In exactly the same way
>> as it breaks VirtualBox.
>>
>> We have tried this ourselves and others have reported the same:
>> - http://www.vmware.com/community/message.jspa?messageID=718184
>> - http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-list/2007-June/msg02501.html
>>
>
> This is unsurprising. But I believe the same solution (rmmod
> kvm-intel) will work for VMware as well as for VirtualBox, or anything
> else that wants to use VT.
>
> Can you explain what is wrong with it? It is simple, requires no
> kernel changes, and has no present and potential future performance
> impact. It will work on all kernel versions, unlike any change you
> may wish us to make.
>
This was just an added note. More meant for distribution maintainers who
feel it is necessary to activate KVM by default.

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