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Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:09:42 -0600
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Alexander Graf wrote:
> I think it would be great to maintain compatibility with the binary-only versions of the vm tools though.
>   

But you're changing the semantics of the x86 instruction set.  You 
potentially break a real operating system.  It also eliminates the 
possibility of nesting with something like kqemu because you can't trap 
all PIO operations.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> 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
>>     
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