Re: KVM and VMware

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

Manfred_Knick wrote:
>>> B) Any chance to solve this problem?
>>>       
>> 'rmmod kvm-intel; rmmod kvm' should work.
>>     
>
> Avi,
> thanks a lot for your _very_ speedy response!!
>
> So I take it that
> --> "You can't have them both at once, at the same time"
> which turns out to be really unfortunate for my tasks.
>
> ERGO: what I'm going to try is:
>
> o) delete all static kvm stuff in the kernel .config / rebuild / reboot
> o) un-merge app-emulation/kvm-84 "without modules"
> o) emerge vmware-workstation
> o) emerge   app-emulation/kvm-84 "with modules"
> o) don't auto-load kvm and kvm-[intel|amd]
> o) !! EITHER start vmware
> o) !! OR load / start KVM,
> o) !! thus manually avoiding those threatening kernel lockups.
>
>
>   

Looks right -- does "without modules" mean kvm is built-in into the kernel?

> Are there any plans @ KVM to change the (*) behavior in the future,
> e.g. switching in and out of root mode each time
> so as to not conflict with other virtualization software?
>   

No, running multiple virtual machine monitors is a very esoteric use 
case and is therefore not worth the performance hit.

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