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AW: Re: [Qemu-devel] VMport patch
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Alexander Graf |
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AW: Re: [Qemu-devel] VMport patch |
Date: |
Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:27:59 +0100 |
I think it would be great to maintain compatibility with the binary-only
versions of the vm tools though.
Regards,
Alex
----- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -----
Von: Anthony Liguori <address@hidden>
Gesendet: Sonntag, 20. Januar 2008 22:40
An: address@hidden
Betreff: Re: [Qemu-devel] VMport patch
Filip Navara wrote:
> Hello,
>
> the current version of QEMU emulates the VMware backdoor I/O port and
> it works quite well. Unfortunately it doesn't emulate the VMware
> behavior of ignoring the I/O permissions when accessing this special
> port. The attached patch corrects it. It's important to ignore the
> permissions, so that user mode VMware tools can communicate to the
> backdoor. =
I really dislike that VMware relies on this. It's very hard to
implement in kqemu or KVM. I think it would be better to modify
open-vm-tools than to modify QEMU.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
> Best regards,
> Filip Navara
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