From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] Vmware ESX under KVM - guest GPF in installer Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 16:03:50 +0300 Message-ID: <48356F36.30505@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: In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Ian Kirk wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to try running Vmware ESX without the effort of finding a > physical machine. Googling around I found that it is possible to run ESX > under other hypervisors/emulators, e.g. Vmware Workstation. So I thought > i'd give KVM a go. > > Using kvm-66 on 2.6.24.4-64.fc8PAE, the (mostly text mode) installer > crashes after starting with "esx text". (I can't easily test kvm-68 at the > mo due to needing to do a reboot of the host) > > Microsoft Virtual Server R2-SP1 kinda works, however the virtual NIC > is unsupported by the ESX installer. > > Qemu 0.9.1 (for Windows) fails at a similar point. > > Is this a "fixed in newer kvm" or a generic problem (be it kvm or ESX > installer CDROM kernel) ? > > I hadn't even got as far as installing/running ESX. > > Regards, > Ian > > > host dmesg says: > kvm: emulating exchange as write > kvm: 9329: cpu0 unhandled rdmsr: 0xc0000080 > kvm: 9350: cpu0 unhandled rdmsr: 0xc0000080 > Yes, EFER support was added recently. Are you using the modules from kvm-66 or from your host kernel? Please try kvm-66's modules and report. I was able to boot the esx installer (I had to specify -smp 2 as there seem to be problems with the mptable on uniprocessors). -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function