From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35593)
	by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71)
	(envelope-from <rjones@redhat.com>) id 1WmQyH-0007RZ-Q4
	for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 19 May 2014 13:03:35 -0400
Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71)
	(envelope-from <rjones@redhat.com>) id 1WmQyC-0004ey-3F
	for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 19 May 2014 13:03:29 -0400
Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:40101)
	by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71)
	(envelope-from <rjones@redhat.com>) id 1WmQyB-0004eT-TB
	for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 19 May 2014 13:03:24 -0400
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 18:03:19 +0100
From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20140519170319.GO1302@redhat.com>
References: <1400518826-19144-1-git-send-email-dgilbert@redhat.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <1400518826-19144-1-git-send-email-dgilbert@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] -machine vmport=off: Allow disabling of
 VMWare ioport emulation
List-Id: <qemu-devel.nongnu.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/options/qemu-devel>,
	<mailto:qemu-devel-request@nongnu.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel>
List-Post: <mailto:qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
List-Help: <mailto:qemu-devel-request@nongnu.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel>,
	<mailto:qemu-devel-request@nongnu.org?subject=subscribe>
To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Cc: mst@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, aliguori@amazon.com, armbru@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.

-- 
Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com
virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any
software inside the virtual machine.  Supports Linux and Windows.
http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/