On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 14:40 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: > On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Zachary Amsden <zach at 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. 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
