Re: AW: Re: [Qemu-devel] VMport patch

2008-01-22 Thread Anthony Liguori
erface. Regards, Anthony Liguori Regards, Alex Regards, Anthony Liguori Cheers, Mark Regards, Anthony Liguori Regards, Alex - Ursprüngliche Nachricht - Von: Anthony Liguori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gesendet: Sonntag, 20. Januar 2008 22:40 An: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Betreff: Re

Re: AW: Re: [Qemu-devel] VMport patch

2008-01-21 Thread Jamie Lokier
Mark Williamson wrote: > > > I think it would be great to maintain compatibility with the binary-only > > > versions of the vm tools though. > > > > But you're changing the semantics of the x86 instruction set. You > > potentially break a real operating system. It also eliminates the > > possibil

Re: AW: Re: [Qemu-devel] VMport patch

2008-01-20 Thread Alexander Graf
gnu.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.

Re: AW: Re: [Qemu-devel] VMport patch

2008-01-20 Thread Anthony Liguori
prüngliche 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 qu

Re: AW: Re: [Qemu-devel] VMport patch

2008-01-20 Thread Mark Williamson
lly for OSes that aren't running the VMware tools.. Cheers, Mark > Regards, > > Anthony Liguori > > > Regards, > > > > Alex > > > > - Ursprüngliche Nachricht - > > Von: Anthony Liguori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Gesendet: S

Re: AW: Re: [Qemu-devel] VMport patch

2008-01-20 Thread Anthony Liguori
sting with something like kqemu because you can't trap all PIO operations. Regards, Anthony Liguori Regards, Alex - Ursprüngliche Nachricht - Von: Anthony Liguori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gesendet: Sonntag, 20. Januar 2008 22:40 An: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Betreff: Re: [Qemu-dev

AW: Re: [Qemu-devel] VMport patch

2008-01-20 Thread Alexander Graf
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

Re: [Qemu-devel] VMport patch

2008-01-20 Thread Anthony Liguori
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

[Qemu-devel] VMport patch

2008-01-20 Thread Filip Navara
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