From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: KVM and VMware Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:03:29 +0200 Message-ID: <49A56BD1.3080003@redhat.com> References: <49A54340.4040708@T-Online.de> <49A54947.9060400@redhat.com> <49A557AE.1010206@T-Online.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Manfred_Knick Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:51771 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762856AbZBYQDe (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:03:34 -0500 In-Reply-To: <49A557AE.1010206@T-Online.de> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function