[NBLUG/talk] VMware on Linux on Xen with non-linux Dom0...

Robert P. Thille list-nblug-talk at rangat.org
Tue Sep 11 12:36:39 PDT 2007


Bob Blick wrote:
> --- "Robert P. Thille" <list-nblug-talk at rangat.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> I've got a board (EPIA EN15000G) which won't run
>> linux stable. Even 
>> without X it'll crash within a few hours or days if
>> loaded up at all.
> 
> Just grasping wildly, but...
> 
> Is this related at all to the "acpi=force irqpoll"
> thing needed with those boards?

Well, I reinstalled (FC6) onto another drive I had lying around and 
added "acpi=force and irqpoll" to the boot options.  Still managed to 
kill it (total lockup) in about 10 minutes running my 'hammer' script 
which generates a bunch of files from /dev/urandom, copies them around 
and then MD5 sums them.  And it does a bunch of the stuff in parallel. 
After about 10 or 20 minutes the machine just froze, same as I saw before.

Oh, and on my original idea, VMWare needs to run on a kernel that's in 
ring-0, so VMWare on linux on Xen or any other virtual machine won't 
fly, at least not without VT or equivalent.

Robert

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