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From: Alexander Graf <agraf@csgraf.de>
Subject: AW: Re: [Qemu-devel] VMport patch
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I think it would be great to maintain compatibility with the binary-only ve=
rsions of the vm tools though.

Regards,

Alex

----- Urspr=FCngliche 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=20
> it works quite well. Unfortunately it doesn't emulate the VMware=20
> behavior of ignoring the I/O permissions when accessing this special=20
> port. The attached patch corrects it. It's important to ignore the=20
> permissions, so that user mode VMware tools can communicate to the=20
> backdoor. =3D

I really dislike that VMware relies on this.  It's very hard to=20
implement in kqemu or KVM.  I think it would be better to modify=20
open-vm-tools than to modify QEMU.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Best regards,
> Filip Navara