From: Alexander Graf <agraf@csgraf.de>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: AW: Re: [Qemu-devel] VMport patch
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:27:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080120222742.B2F993A9B@csgraf.de> (raw)
I think it would be great to maintain compatibility with the binary-only versions of the vm tools though.
Regards,
Alex
----- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -----
Von: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Gesendet: Sonntag, 20. Januar 2008 22:40
An: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Betreff: Re: [Qemu-devel] VMport patch
Filip Navara wrote:
> Hello,
>
> the current version of QEMU emulates the VMware backdoor I/O port and
> it works quite well. Unfortunately it doesn't emulate the VMware
> behavior of ignoring the I/O permissions when accessing this special
> port. The attached patch corrects it. It's important to ignore the
> permissions, so that user mode VMware tools can communicate to the
> backdoor. =
I really dislike that VMware relies on this. It's very hard to
implement in kqemu or KVM. I think it would be better to modify
open-vm-tools than to modify QEMU.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
> Best regards,
> Filip Navara
next reply other threads:[~2008-01-20 22:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-20 22:27 Alexander Graf [this message]
2008-01-20 23:09 ` AW: Re: [Qemu-devel] VMport patch Anthony Liguori
2008-01-20 23:17 ` Mark Williamson
2008-01-21 2:41 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-01-21 7:10 ` Alexander Graf
2008-01-22 18:55 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-01-21 10:13 ` Jamie Lokier
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