Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753483AbZI2IMF (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:12:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753242AbZI2IMF (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:12:05 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:43754 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753212AbZI2IMD (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:12:03 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:08:31 +0200 From: Arjan van de Ven To: akataria@vmware.com Cc: Gerd Hoffmann , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , the arch/x86 maintainers , LKML , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Chris Wright , Rusty Russell , "virtualization@lists.osdl.org" , Greg KH , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Paravirtualization on VMware's Platform [VMI]. Message-ID: <20090929100831.18ece319@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <1254185107.13456.32.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> References: <1253233028.19731.63.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> <20090919224430.GB9567@kroah.com> <1253419185.3253.21.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> <20090920074247.GA5733@elte.hu> <1253647845.10565.20.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> <4AB9CE66.1030504@redhat.com> <1254185107.13456.32.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.16.6; i586-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 813 Lines: 15 > For now I have just added some text in the feature-removal file and > disabled VMI by default in the Kconfig, the reason that needs to be > done is because "Live Migration" of a VMI enabled VM to future > products which don't support VMI will not work, so its important that > newer distros keep this disabled, if they want seamless migration > that is. btw the "default" in KConfig tends to be totally ignored by distro kernel maintainers... please don't assume that just because some default is set in KConfig it has ANY impact on what shows up in distributions. -- 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/