On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Zachary Amsden <zach at vmware.com> wrote: > 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. BIOS has correct mptable for linux but not for esx. ok, my question is: anyone tried to use kexec with vmware? YH
