Re : Re : [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Make vmport an optional feature at run time.

[Sylvain Petreolle]

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> De : Anthony Liguori <address@hidden>
> À : address@hidden
> Envoyé le : Jeudi, 28 Août 2008, 23h41mn 20s
> Objet : Re: Re : [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Make vmport an optional feature at 
> run time.
> 
> Ian Kirk wrote:
> > Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >
> >  
> >> You may discover down the road that the only way to get ESX working
> >> under QEMU is to add something to vmport as opposed to disabling it
> >> altogether.
> >>    
> >
> > I think that's highly unlikely unless all real PC BIOSes support vmport?
> >  
> 
> ESX explicitly supports running under workstation.  It's likely using 
> vmport to probe the fact that it is running under workstation.  
> Presumably, it may be a bit less picky about what it's running on if it 
> thinks it's running under workstation.
> 
> So this is why I don't think this is highly unlikely.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Anthony Liguori
You can find easily some other software that refuse to work.
2 that came to mind.
JAF (Just Another Flasher)
iGuidance, which explicitely says "This will not run under VMWare".


Kind regards,
Sylvain Petreolle (aka Usurp)