Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753778AbYJCVke (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Oct 2008 17:40:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752796AbYJCVk0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Oct 2008 17:40:26 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.239]:62419 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752662AbYJCVkZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Oct 2008 17:40:25 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references:x-google-sender-auth; b=IZxi+5VSGSROXoJ4ycqo3I3TjvXKOclT6Bz2aoG84qHs61yM4luHBXqnXazwXiiBYW TES49S/p/lNdVqORNWNTNug7vi1OlX7WnDEJfZoVIXnnF3vpkjjXYscFqVt7MJlRkaw2 HRoiJFGz3pApOXzCeWrvuGVMYNQoSw6g8klTg= Message-ID: <86802c440810031440o59359f30ka72230b4b0ff73e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 14:40:24 -0700 From: "Yinghai Lu" To: "Zachary Amsden" Subject: Re: kexec with vmware esx 3.0.2 Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , "Vivek Goyal" , "Alok Kataria" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" , "kexec@lists.infradead.org" In-Reply-To: <1223068893.7330.117.camel@bodhitayantram.eng.vmware.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <86802c440810031408i60e2036ax805bfd997092cd86@mail.gmail.com> <1223068893.7330.117.camel@bodhitayantram.eng.vmware.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: e9ff97f40705dc9f Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 657 Lines: 18 On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Zachary Amsden wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 14:08 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: >> anyone tried to use linux kernel to kexec vmware esx? > > That would not be a recommended practice. It might work. It should not > be very useful. > esx 3.0.2 relys on correct mps table, could boot linux with update_mptable or alloc_mptable, and then load vmware with kexec. YH -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/