Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] VMware questions

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

>> >> > It looks like we might be buying ESX at work.  I'm running the
>> >> > evaluation now to check it out.  I'm leaning toward 3i.
>> >>
>> >> If you're running newer Linux kernels as VMs, make sure the version
>> >> supports VMI. This will help you a lot.
>> >
>> > Is there an easy way to tell?
>>
>> No, but they will for sure list it in the features.
>> They may either call it VMI or Paravirtualization support.
>
> Do you know if the stock kernels in the newest major distro's have VMI
> turned on?  (OpenSuSE 10.3, CentOS 5.1, Ubuntu 7.10, Redhat 5, ...)

No idea.
You'll have to boot them up and then look in dmesg if you can find anything.
I think the message is being displayed fairly early.

>> >> De-Select VMWare and select open-vm-tools in menuconfig. ;-)
>> >
>> > root:/data/build# grep VM scripts/configuration/profiles/default
>> > CONFIG_LVM2=y
>> > CONFIG_VMWARE=y
>> > root:/data/build#
>> >
>> > Maybe we should change the default config too?  :-)
>> > (yes, I'll do it ...)  ;-)
>>
>> Good idea, why don't you go ahead and do it? ;-)
>
> Speaking of the default config, it contains the line:
>   CONFIG_LINUX_POWER_MGMT=ACPI
> and I can't find any reference to it in build/scripts/*
> and it's not in my .config  -- shall I remove that line too?

Yeah

> And the default config has:
>   CONFIG_POPTOP_MPPE_MPPC=n
> and nothing about that in my .config  (same question)

Yeah, too.

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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
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