Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753960AbYJCWv2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Oct 2008 18:51:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752796AbYJCWvT (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Oct 2008 18:51:19 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.227]:4266 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752646AbYJCWvS (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Oct 2008 18:51:18 -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=yCsNzsSqIzHAYMY3fv81WsTL/+SrHoXwDOQBU8fL/IOI1xU8M4xa0IfRBOVRRED7kO UpJnTJXB04bqHggnW9adMPDTuxQYz6byjuRSdHQt318eZcukL5eFZ2REn3M4PtkuOD0I 1SMda8jp8RHdc6LCXq+3G9bZzIMfWo+wB0xgY= Message-ID: <86802c440810031551g246232c9n520ef43c6881b8af@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 15:51:18 -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: <1223071731.7330.127.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> <86802c440810031440o59359f30ka72230b4b0ff73e@mail.gmail.com> <1223070521.7330.122.camel@bodhitayantram.eng.vmware.com> <86802c440810031458s1ce79589s2448aa0869a74e21@mail.gmail.com> <1223071731.7330.127.camel@bodhitayantram.eng.vmware.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: c03be1d02c5fe2f5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1459 Lines: 34 On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Zachary Amsden wrote: > 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. BIOS has correct mptable for linux but not for esx. ok, my question is: anyone tried to use kexec with vmware? 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/