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From: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
To: "David S. Ahern" <daahern@cisco.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, avi@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add microcode patch level dummy
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:39:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <496237DD.6010900@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49623778.4040808@cisco.com>

David S. Ahern wrote:
> Alexander Graf wrote:
>   
>> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>     
>>> Alexander Graf wrote:
>>>       
>>>> VMware ESX checks if the microcode level is correct when using a
>>>> barcelona CPU, in
>>>> order to see if it actually can use SVM. Let's tell it we're on the
>>>> safe side...
>>>>   
>>>>         
>>> Sounds like you're able to boot ESX?  Are you able to run a guest yet?
>>>       
>> The moment you wrote the mail I just managed to get ReactOS running in
>> ESX. It does not use SVM yet though. I wonder when/if ESX actually does
>> use SVM.
>>
>>     
>
> Is the guest 64-bit? I am suspecting ESX 3.5 series does not use VT/SVM
> for 32-bit guests, but have not been able to positively confirm it.
>   

I told VMware it's "an unknown 64-bit Linux guest". Oh well, I can try
to actually run 64-bit code in the VM :).

Alex


  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-05 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-05 15:02 [PATCH] Add microcode patch level dummy Alexander Graf
2009-01-05 16:28 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-01-05 16:30   ` Alexander Graf
2009-01-05 16:38     ` David S. Ahern
2009-01-05 16:39       ` Alexander Graf [this message]
2009-01-05 16:40     ` Anthony Liguori
2009-01-05 17:08       ` Alexander Graf
2009-01-06  9:29 ` Avi Kivity

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