From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux with kvm-intel locks up VMplayer guest is started
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:29:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080617162910.4019bf01@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080617133234.GE2397@deprecation.cyrius.com>
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:32:34 +0200
Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> wrote:
> * Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> [2008-06-17 08:16]:
> > VMware is a binary kernel module that's out of kernel. KVM is not
> > misbehaving and the fact that VMware breaks when the KVM module is
> > loaded isn't our problem. If they submitted their code for
> > inclusion in mainline, we could possibly come up with solution for
> > arbitrating who is using VT.
>
> I feared I'd get a response like this. But unless this is a known
> issue in VMware (which I don't think it is), you don't know whether
> it's not a bug in kvm-intel.
So ask vmware. They have source to both parts we don't.
And its a bug in vmware by definition. If the emulator differs from the
real thing then the emulator is at fault. It might well be that the limit
is a genuine technical limit - but its still an emulator fault.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-17 15:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-16 15:05 Martin Michlmayr
2008-06-16 15:21 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-06-17 12:39 ` Martin Michlmayr
2008-06-17 13:16 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-06-17 13:32 ` Martin Michlmayr
2008-06-17 13:44 ` Martin Michlmayr
2008-06-17 14:02 ` Javier Guerra
2008-06-17 15:29 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-06-17 18:09 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-06-18 13:56 ` Avi Kivity
2008-06-18 20:59 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-06-18 19:05 devzero
2008-06-18 19:52 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-06-19 1:08 ` Eli Collins
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