On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 14:58 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: > On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Zachary Amsden <zach at vmware.com> wrote: > > 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? > BIOS is not buggy... vmware seems not to be smart enough to correct pic mode. > because current linux kernel could works well with acpi=off BIOS is missing correct MP table. Thus buggy. You should not be trying to run ESX on buggy hardware. Zach
