Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753974AbYJCWMs (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Oct 2008 18:12:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752156AbYJCWMk (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Oct 2008 18:12:40 -0400 Received: from smtp-outbound-2.vmware.com ([65.115.85.73]:56697 "EHLO smtp-outbound-2.vmware.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751853AbYJCWMk (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Oct 2008 18:12:40 -0400 Subject: Re: kexec with vmware esx 3.0.2 From: Zachary Amsden To: Yinghai Lu Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , Vivek Goyal , Alok Kataria , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "kexec@lists.infradead.org" In-Reply-To: <86802c440810031458s1ce79589s2448aa0869a74e21@mail.gmail.com> References: <86802c440810031408i60e2036ax805bfd997092cd86@mail.gmail.com> <1223068893.7330.117.camel@bodhitayantram.eng.vmware.com> <86802c440810031440o59359f30ka72230b4b0ff73e@mail.gmail.com> <1223070521.7330.122.camel@bodhitayantram.eng.vmware.com> <86802c440810031458s1ce79589s2448aa0869a74e21@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:08:51 -0700 Message-Id: <1223071731.7330.127.camel@bodhitayantram.eng.vmware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1252 Lines: 30 On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 14:58 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: > On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Zachary Amsden wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 14:40 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: > >> 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. > > > > And end up running ESX on hardware where it is not supported and you > > already have a buggy BIOS? > BIOS is not buggy... vmware seems not to be smart enough to correct pic mode. > because current linux kernel could works well with acpi=off BIOS is missing correct MP table. Thus buggy. You should not be trying to run ESX on buggy hardware. Zach -- 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/