Kernel VMI (Virtual Machine Interface) in F7/F8?
Daniel P. Berrange
berrange at redhat.com
Mon Oct 1 00:36:02 UTC 2007
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 04:52:55PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 06:57:17PM -0200, Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
> > Hi there...
> >
> > It seems (noted in releasenotes) that F7 should have a VMI (Virtual
> > Machine Interface) enabled kernel by default, but from what I can find
> > in the .config files it doesn't... Do I need a special kernel (i.e. only
> > the XEN kernel has VMI or something) or was it lost in a kernel update
> > or...?
>
> in config-x86-generic:
>
> CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION=y
> CONFIG_VMI=y
> CONFIG_LGUEST=m
>
> but it doesn't appear that CONFIG_VMI is enabled on the x86_64 kernel
> in config-2.6.23-0.214.rc8.git2.fc8. Unless there's a better answer
> shortly, please file this as a bug against the kernel. It may just be
> an oversight.
paravirt_ops (and thus VMI & LGuedst) only exists on i686. There is no x86_64
or other arch support for any of this yet.
Dan.
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