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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

             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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