Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:29:10 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: Linux with kvm-intel locks up VMplayer guest is started |
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On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:32:34 +0200 Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> wrote:
> * Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> [2008-06-17 08:16]: > > VMware is a binary kernel module that's out of kernel. KVM is not > > misbehaving and the fact that VMware breaks when the KVM module is > > loaded isn't our problem. If they submitted their code for > > inclusion in mainline, we could possibly come up with solution for > > arbitrating who is using VT. > > I feared I'd get a response like this. But unless this is a known > issue in VMware (which I don't think it is), you don't know whether > it's not a bug in kvm-intel.
So ask vmware. They have source to both parts we don't.
And its a bug in vmware by definition. If the emulator differs from the real thing then the emulator is at fault. It might well be that the limit is a genuine technical limit - but its still an emulator fault.
Alan
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