Nested kvm -> vmware esx

Nested kvm -> vmware esx

[Jeffry Molanus]

Hi all,

I want to run vmware esxi in a kvm virtual machine, however the CPU is 
not supported by vmware as its an amd qemu cpu. Is there a work around 
for this? Like setting an other cpu ID or something?

Kind regards,

Jeffry

Re: Nested kvm -> vmware esx

[Jeffry Molanus]

Ps. I did try the -cpu switches ofcourse

Jeffry

Jeffry Molanus schreef:
> Hi all,
>
> I want to run vmware esxi in a kvm virtual machine, however the CPU is 
> not supported by vmware as its an amd qemu cpu. Is there a work around 
> for this? Like setting an other cpu ID or something?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Jeffry
>

Re: Nested kvm -> vmware esx

[Alexander Graf]

Jeffry Molanus wrote:
> Ps. I did try the -cpu switches ofcourse
>
> Jeffry


Please try to use the -cpu phenom CPU and Nested Paging on an AMD CPU.
That's the only configuration I got things working at least a bit with.
If that work so far, apply the VMware backdoor patch I posted on the
qemu list, that exposes the TSC speed to ESX.

Using that configuration I was able to run ReactOS in the nested guest
pretty well. Linux got stuck somewhere in udev though. Don't try 64-bit
Linux yet.

Alex

Re: Nested kvm -> vmware esx

[Jeffry Molanus]

I have applied the patches you suggested and the system boots. The
system boots *very* slow and panics once it boots. I do not have the
dump with me right now but its something in sched.c

Jeffry

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> wrote:
> Jeffry Molanus wrote:
>> Ps. I did try the -cpu switches ofcourse
>>
>> Jeffry
>
>
> Please try to use the -cpu phenom CPU and Nested Paging on an AMD CPU.
> That's the only configuration I got things working at least a bit with.
> If that work so far, apply the VMware backdoor patch I posted on the
> qemu list, that exposes the TSC speed to ESX.
>
> Using that configuration I was able to run ReactOS in the nested guest
> pretty well. Linux got stuck somewhere in udev though. Don't try 64-bit
> Linux yet.
>
> Alex
>

Re: Nested kvm -> vmware esx

[Alexander Graf]

Does the first or second level guest panic?

Alex

On 13.02.2009, at 18:38, Jeffry Molanus <jeffry.molanus@gmail.com>  
wrote:

> I have applied the patches you suggested and the system boots. The
> system boots *very* slow and panics once it boots. I do not have the
> dump with me right now but its something in sched.c
>
> Jeffry
>
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> wrote:
>> Jeffry Molanus wrote:
>>> Ps. I did try the -cpu switches ofcourse
>>>
>>> Jeffry
>>
>>
>> Please try to use the -cpu phenom CPU and Nested Paging on an AMD  
>> CPU.
>> That's the only configuration I got things working at least a bit  
>> with.
>> If that work so far, apply the VMware backdoor patch I posted on the
>> qemu list, that exposes the TSC speed to ESX.
>>
>> Using that configuration I was able to run ReactOS in the nested  
>> guest
>> pretty well. Linux got stuck somewhere in udev though. Don't try 64- 
>> bit
>> Linux yet.
>>
>> Alex
>>