I think it would be great to maintain compatibility with the binary-only versions of the vm tools though.
Regards, Alex ----- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ----- Von: Anthony Liguori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gesendet: Sonntag, 20. Januar 2008 22:40 An: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Betreff: Re: [Qemu-devel] VMport patch Filip Navara wrote: > Hello, > > the current version of QEMU emulates the VMware backdoor I/O port and > it works quite well. Unfortunately it doesn't emulate the VMware > behavior of ignoring the I/O permissions when accessing this special > port. The attached patch corrects it. It's important to ignore the > permissions, so that user mode VMware tools can communicate to the > backdoor. = I really dislike that VMware relies on this. It's very hard to implement in kqemu or KVM. I think it would be better to modify open-vm-tools than to modify QEMU. Regards, Anthony Liguori > Best regards, > Filip Navara
