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Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:45:16 -0700
From: "Yinghai Lu" <yinghai@kernel.org>
To: "Zachary Amsden" <zach@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: kexec with vmware esx 3.0.2
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On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 15:51 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>
>> ok, my question is: anyone tried to use kexec with vmware?
>
> Do you mean has anyone tried to use kexec in Linux running under VMware,

that should work

> or do you mean has anyone tried to use kexec to start ESX?

yeah, that is strange request. hope it work..

YH