On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 16:45 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: > On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Zachary Amsden <zach at 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 It does. > > or do you mean has anyone tried to use kexec to start ESX? > > yeah, that is strange request. hope it work.. Well you're a braver soul than me. If your hardware is really so horked you can't boot Linux without noacpi, I seriously doubt the vmkernel will run properly. You might be able to kexec the Linux pre-bootstrapping bit, the the vmkernel is not even close to the same code lineage and has a limited and very fixed set of hardware requirements. And you are talking about fixing up the MP table and interfering with the custom boot process? I would not for any amount of money want to find out what kind of squirrels are hiding in that nest. I mean can you run Oracle on an overclocked budget brand laptop? Well, maybe. But you're talking about running an enterprise class application on dodgy hardware, and that is seriously stretching the realms of sanity. I kinda don't think this is really interesting to the folks on LKML, you could try asking over on the VMware forums. Good luck, Zach
