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From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Cc: mst@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, aliguori@amazon.com,
	armbru@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] -machine vmport=off: Allow disabling of VMWare ioport emulation
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 18:03:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140519170319.GO1302@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1400518826-19144-1-git-send-email-dgilbert@redhat.com>

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 06:00:26PM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git) wrote:
> From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
> 
> VMWare apparently doesn't like running under QEMU due to our
> incomplete emulation of it's special IO Port.  This adds a
> -machine suboption to allow it to be turned off.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>

Tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>

I was able to use this option in order to install VMware ESXi as a
guest under KVM.  Here are my notes on how to do this:

https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2014/05/19/notes-on-getting-vmware-esxi-to-run-under-kvm/#content

Rich.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-19 17:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-19 17:00 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] -machine vmport=off: Allow disabling of VMWare ioport emulation Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2014-05-19 17:03 ` Richard W.M. Jones [this message]
2014-05-20  7:40 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-05-20  8:47   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-05-20  9:18     ` Richard W.M. Jones
2014-05-20 10:10       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-09-25 13:40         ` Slutz, Donald Christopher
2014-09-25 15:07           ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-09-25 17:47             ` Slutz, Donald Christopher
2014-09-25 18:00               ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert

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