From: "Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>
To: Jan Rychter <jan@rychter.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: vmware in Linux 2.6
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 22:46:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <155339E1124@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz> (raw)
On 26 Sep 03 at 12:56, Jan Rychter wrote:
> >>>>> "Petr" == Petr Vandrovec <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>:
> Petr> On 26 Sep 03 at 12:50, Mons Rullgord wrote:
> >> "Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz> writes:
> >>
> > Is it possible to use vmware with Linux 2.6? The kernel modules
> > (obviously) fail to compile.
>
> [...]
>
> Petr> And except that this patch makes thing compilable, it also makes
> Petr> driver a bit friendlier to the MM subsystem, it allows you to use
> Petr> VMware on 4G/4G host, and it properly handles bridged networking
> Petr> on adapters using hardware (or pseudohardware...) Tx checksumming
> Petr> (although only for IPv4 due to features of dev_queue_xmit_nit).
>
> Does VMware roll these changes back in? This isn't cheap software, I
> feel they should care for Linux users a bit more.
Yes. Currently VMware's & mine code is identical except that mine
vmmon supports all released products since VMware 2.0.0 through VMware
express, GSX & so on up to the VMware 4.0.2, while VMware's code supports
only product it is shipped with. And you need C++ (for templates which are
used for generating code for different product versions) with mine code,
while you get one unwind template instance from VMware.
> For those who run VMware on notebooks with ACPI, another patch is
> necessary, otherwise ACPI C-states handling doesn't notice VMware and as
> a result the guest system is unbearably slow.
If this patch is for vmmon, can you share it with VMware (or with me
and I'll then share it with VMware) ? I cannot explain why ACPI does
not notice that kernel is spending about 99% of time in the kernel,
being very busy with hard work...
Thanks,
Petr Vandrovec
vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
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2003-09-26 20:46 Petr Vandrovec [this message]
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2003-09-26 12:45 vmware in Linux 2.6 Petr Vandrovec
2003-09-26 19:56 ` Jan Rychter
2003-09-26 10:25 Petr Vandrovec
2003-09-26 10:50 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-09-26 9:46 Måns Rullgård
2003-09-26 10:28 ` Martin Zwickel
2003-09-26 10:29 ` Sean Neakums
2003-09-26 10:30 ` Helmut Djurkin
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