From: "Yinghai Lu" <yinghai@kernel.org>
To: "Zachary Amsden" <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
"Vivek Goyal" <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
"Alok Kataria" <akataria@vmware.com>,
"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"kexec@lists.infradead.org" <kexec@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: kexec with vmware esx 3.0.2
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 14:40:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86802c440810031440o59359f30ka72230b4b0ff73e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1223068893.7330.117.camel@bodhitayantram.eng.vmware.com>
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> 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.
YH
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-03 21:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-03 21:08 Yinghai Lu
2008-10-03 21:21 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-10-03 21:40 ` Yinghai Lu [this message]
2008-10-03 21:48 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-10-03 21:58 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-03 22:08 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-10-03 22:51 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-03 22:58 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-10-03 23:45 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-04 5:41 ` Zachary Amsden
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