Re: ESX on KVM

2010-02-04 Thread Alexander Graf
screen of death - #GP Exception(13) in world 0" The last version I tried had a grub menu entry for running a debug version of esx. Using -serial stdio I could then see more verbose output (IIRC). But there really was a thread with debugging help and pointers to patches about esx on kvm

Re: ESX on KVM

2010-02-04 Thread Brian Kelly
I should also point out that I am testing with esxi 4.0, which has a 64bit requirement. Thanks On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Brian Kelly wrote: > Hello - > This is a topic which has been covered in the past that i'd like to > bump for my own sanity check... > Currently when i boot esx it hang

ESX on KVM

2010-02-04 Thread Brian Kelly
Hello - This is a topic which has been covered in the past that i'd like to bump for my own sanity check... Currently when i boot esx it hangs on "loading install.tgz booting:mbi=0x00010090, entry=0x00100212" Followed by a purple screen of death - #GP Exception(13) in world 0" My config looks some

Re: ESX on KVM requirements

2009-07-28 Thread Alexander Graf
On 28.07.2009, at 23:24, Ben Sanders wrote: Maybe my first announcement of it working was a bit premature. ESX is indeed running on KVM, but is somewhat useless as I can't seem to add a datastore (where ESX puts the virtual machine disks). I tried adding a SCSI drive with "-drive file=da

Re: ESX on KVM requirements

2009-07-28 Thread Ben Sanders
Maybe my first announcement of it working was a bit premature. ESX is indeed running on KVM, but is somewhat useless as I can't seem to add a datastore (where ESX puts the virtual machine disks). I tried adding a SCSI drive with "-drive file=datastore.img,if=scsi" but to no avail. It seems that

Re: ESX on KVM requirements

2009-07-01 Thread Ben Sanders
Finally got it to work on a 32 bit OS (Ubuntu 9.04), both on the phenom 9950 and another machine. I haven't tried running any guests yet. I suppose the TSC patch doesn't work on 64 bit hosts. Thanks for all your help, Ben On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:38 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: > > Well, your ma

Re: ESX on KVM requirements

2009-06-26 Thread Alexander Graf
On 25.06.2009, at 04:04, Ben Sanders wrote: I applied the patch I found here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/35419 and here are my new debug results: http://pastebin.com/m60d53e9d It looks like it is still crashing in the same place, so I double checked that the patch was ap

Re: ESX on KVM requirements

2009-06-24 Thread Ben Sanders
I applied the patch I found here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/35419 and here are my new debug results: http://pastebin.com/m60d53e9d It looks like it is still crashing in the same place, so I double checked that the patch was applied correctly. I also didn't have the "npt=1"

Re: ESX on KVM requirements

2009-06-19 Thread Alexander Graf
On 19.06.2009, at 03:19, Ben Sanders wrote: I needed nested paging to have things work, so phenom was mandatory. Also, because I was running things on a Phenom, I figured the safest bet is to be truthful in telling the guest what it's running on. Also ESX checked for specific cpuid revisi

Re: ESX on KVM requirements

2009-06-14 Thread Alexander Graf
On 14.06.2009, at 13:57, Avi Kivity wrote: Ben Sanders wrote: I'm looking to reproduce the results of Alexander Graf earlier this year when he said that he was able to get ESX to run a ReactOS guest all on top of KVM. More information on that can be found here: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarch

Re: ESX on KVM requirements

2009-06-14 Thread Avi Kivity
Ben Sanders wrote: I'm looking to reproduce the results of Alexander Graf earlier this year when he said that he was able to get ESX to run a ReactOS guest all on top of KVM. More information on that can be found here: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kvm/2009/1/5/4600354/thread So far,

ESX on KVM requirements

2009-06-08 Thread Ben Sanders
I'm looking to reproduce the results of Alexander Graf earlier this year when he said that he was able to get ESX to run a ReactOS guest all on top of KVM.  More information on that can be found here: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kvm/2009/1/5/4600354/thread So far, I can only boot esx i