Hi, I wanted to try running Vmware ESX without the effort of finding a physical machine. Googling around I found that it is possible to run ESX under other hypervisors/emulators, e.g. Vmware Workstation. So I thought i'd give KVM a go.
Using kvm-66 on 2.6.24.4-64.fc8PAE, the (mostly text mode) installer crashes after starting with "esx text". (I can't easily test kvm-68 at the mo due to needing to do a reboot of the host) Microsoft Virtual Server R2-SP1 kinda works, however the virtual NIC is unsupported by the ESX installer. Qemu 0.9.1 (for Windows) fails at a similar point. Is this a "fixed in newer kvm" or a generic problem (be it kvm or ESX installer CDROM kernel) ? I hadn't even got as far as installing/running ESX. Regards, Ian host dmesg says: kvm: emulating exchange as write kvm: 9329: cpu0 unhandled rdmsr: 0xc0000080 kvm: 9350: cpu0 unhandled rdmsr: 0xc0000080 guest kernel says: Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. general protection fault: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c02ba1b1>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010206 EIP is at (2.4.21-47.0.1.ELBOOT/i686) eax: 0191abfd ebx: c0293580 ecx: c0000080 edx: 00000001 esi: 00000001 edi: 00000002 ebp: c0293580 esp: c02b5fc8 ds: 0068 cs: 0060 es: 0068 ss: 0068 Process swapper (pid: 0, stackpage=c02b5000) Stack: c02ba34a c0293580 c0293580 00000800 00039800 c0107000 0002e000 c02b6192 c0293580 c02b6679 0001fff0 0001fff0 c02e8480 c010018c Call Trace: [<c0107000>] (0xc02b5fdc) Code: 0f 32 a9 00 08 00 00 74 09 a1 74 0e 2d c0 85 c0 74 0d c7 05 Kernel panic: Fatal exception In idle task - not syncing ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel