kexec with vmware esx 3.0.2

[Yinghai Lu]

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Zachary Amsden <zach at vmware.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 14:58 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Zachary Amsden <zach at vmware.com> wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 14:40 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> >> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Zachary Amsden <zach at vmware.com> wrote:
>> >> > On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 14:08 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> >> >> anyone tried to use linux kernel to kexec vmware esx?
>> >> >
>> >> > That would not be a recommended practice.  It might work.  It should not
>> >> > be very useful.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> esx 3.0.2 relys on correct mps table,
>> >> could boot linux with update_mptable or alloc_mptable, and then load
>> >> vmware with kexec.
>> >
>> > And end up running ESX on hardware where it is not supported and you
>> > already have a buggy BIOS?
>> BIOS is not buggy... vmware seems not to be smart enough to correct pic mode.
>> because current linux kernel could works well with acpi=off
>
> BIOS is missing correct MP table.  Thus buggy.  You should not be trying
> to run ESX on buggy hardware.

BIOS has correct mptable for linux but not for esx.

ok, my question is: anyone tried to use kexec with vmware?

YH