[kvm-devel] must use VMware sometimes

2007-09-22 Thread Scott Serr
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

Re: [kvm-devel] must use VMware sometimes

2007-09-22 Thread Fernando Cassia
I'm sure the developers will be more than happy to answer your question, for which I sadly don't know the answer. But perhaps I can speculate/think aloud What would be needed for these instances is for Virtualization software makers to agree on an EXTERNAL API shared by all the VMs, so that w

Re: [kvm-devel] must use VMware sometimes

2007-09-22 Thread Alexey Eremenko
Well, there is discussion on VirtualBox about this topic as well, but no solution. http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/317 Ideally Linux needs some mechanism to "share" VMX across different virtualizers. But it doesn't exists, and not even planned. -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" --

Re: [kvm-devel] must use VMware sometimes

2007-09-23 Thread Avi Kivity
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 KV

Re: [kvm-devel] must use VMware sometimes

2007-09-23 Thread Scott Serr
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 t

Re: [kvm-devel] must use VMware sometimes

2007-09-23 Thread Avi Kivity
Scott Serr wrote: >> >> 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