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diff --git a/results/scraper/launchpad-without-comments/1243968 b/results/scraper/launchpad-without-comments/1243968 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d166f0cf --- /dev/null +++ b/results/scraper/launchpad-without-comments/1243968 @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +VMware ESXi on QEmu Kernel Panic + +I attempted to install ESXi 5.5 (the free version) into a QEmu 1.6.1 VM. The guest OS does have the svm capabilities, but it appears VMware is trying to do some kind of hypercall that crashes the guest. + +There is more information here: https://communities.vmware.com/message/2297382 + +It seems to me that this stubbed feature should just be disabled if it is unusable. Or at the very least I should be able to disable it at run-time with a command-line argument. + +Is there some way to disable all the hypervisor features that makes it very obvious to a guest os that it is running inside a VM? It would be great if I could install a software and it would actually work (even if it's slow with those features disabled). + +FYI, my guest OS capabilities are: + +# cat /proc/cpuinfo +processor : 0 +vendor_id : AuthenticAMD +cpu family : 6 +model : 2 +model name : QEMU Virtual CPU version 1.5.3 +stepping : 3 +microcode : 0x1000065 +cpu MHz : 1999.999 +cache size : 512 KB +fpu : yes +fpu_exception : yes +cpuid level : 4 +wp : yes +flags : fpu de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx lm nopl pni cx16 popcnt hypervisor lahf_lm svm abm sse4a +bogomips : 3999.99 +TLB size : 1024 4K pages +clflush size : 64 +cache_alignment : 64 +address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual +power management: \ No newline at end of file |