Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:58:52 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Paravirtualization on VMware's Platform [VMI]. |
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Alok Kataria wrote: > > What do you suggest would be the right time ? > > Please note that the next major release of VMware's product will not > have this supported. Also that, most of our customers will actually be > running some distro's enterprise release, rather than running the > cutting edge kernel. So IMO there is still a window of around 1-1.5 > years, until a customer actually sees a kernel which has dropped VMI > support. >
I would say it might make sense pulling it out around the end of 2010, which would be about 6 kernel releases from now -- 2.6.37.
-hpa
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