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Ian Kirk wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
>   
>> You may discover down the road that the only way to get ESX working
>> under QEMU is to add something to vmport as opposed to disabling it
>> altogether.
>>     
>
> I think that's highly unlikely unless all real PC BIOSes support vmport?
>   

ESX explicitly supports running under workstation.  It's likely using 
vmport to probe the fact that it is running under workstation.  
Presumably, it may be a bit less picky about what it's running on if it 
thinks it's running under workstation.

So this is why I don't think this is highly unlikely.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori