From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] VMport patch
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:40:44 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4793BFDC.1050707@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5b31733c0801201047o283aad77ndaae4ea23a1525d@mail.gmail.com>
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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-20 21:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-20 18:47 [Qemu-devel] VMport patch Filip Navara
2008-01-20 21:40 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
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