Avi Kivity wrote: > Scott Serr wrote: >> I must use VMware sometimes for colaboration projects where others >> are using VMware. And also a situation where I have a VERY old >> development environment perfectly tweaked on Win98. I have to do one >> of these say 10% of the time. >> >> 100% of the time I'd like to use KVM (or Xen). I'd like to not have >> to close KVM VMs and unload the modules just so I can do a little >> work in VMware. >> >> Is this possible? Or will it ever be possible? Initially I thought >> since VMware (workstation) didn't use any VM extensions of >> processors, it would not interfere with the KVM or Xen... but I seem >> to be wrong. >> >> Tell me... use VMware basically prohibits me from using KVM or Xen? >> > > I believe VMware uses real mode transiently, which is not possible > when vmx extensions are enabled. So using VMware and kvm concurrently > is not possible. > > Maybe one of the following will suit: > - run the Windows 98 image in qemu (without kvm). This will have > lower performance, but may be adequate. > - run VMware within a kvm VM, and run Windows 98 within that. > - unload the modules. This isn't a lot of fun and prevents concurrent > operation. > Thanks Avi,
#2 sounds good to me "run VMware within a kvm VM, and run Win98 within that." I've gone all the way down this path with Xen but ended at a road block. VMware Workstation says it can run in a Xen VM and halts. If you grab VMware Server it lets you go, but during an install of CentOS early on, it freezes. I'm not sure #2 is possible with KVM. Can someone comment if they are doing this reliably? Thanks, -Scott ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
