From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754527AbYJCVwo (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Oct 2008 17:52:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754167AbYJCVwa (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Oct 2008 17:52:30 -0400 Received: from smtp-outbound-2.vmware.com ([65.115.85.73]:51250 "EHLO smtp-outbound-2.vmware.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753570AbYJCVwa (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Oct 2008 17:52:30 -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: <86802c440810031440o59359f30ka72230b4b0ff73e@mail.gmail.com> References: <86802c440810031408i60e2036ax805bfd997092cd86@mail.gmail.com> <1223068893.7330.117.camel@bodhitayantram.eng.vmware.com> <86802c440810031440o59359f30ka72230b4b0ff73e@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:48:41 -0700 Message-Id: <1223070521.7330.122.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 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? Yeah, it might work, but it should not be very useful. Zach