Re: [Xen-users] Re: testing VMware inside an HVM

[Jan Michael <Jan.Michael@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Bigfoot29 (please use your real name),

> I can confirm that VMWare runs if you launch it within a Win2k3- 
> Session.
> The GSX-Server isn't all that fast (well, it never really is under
> Windows), but its working. So if you want to give it a try, this  
> might be
> a possible solution.
I thought that this is technically impossible. Can you tell something  
about the performance footprint?
Cheers,

        Jan


On 22.09.2007, at 09:47, bigfoot29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi there.
>
> I can confirm that VMWare runs if you launch it within a Win2k3- 
> Session.
> The GSX-Server isn't all that fast (well, it never really is under
> Windows), but its working. So if you want to give it a try, this  
> might be
> a possible solution.
>
> Regards, Bigfoot29
>
>
>
> > Message: 3
> > Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:57:32 -0600
> > From: Scott Serr <serrs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [Xen-users] testing VMware inside an HVM
> > To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Message-ID: <46F227EC.30609@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> >
> > Now that I have an HVM running CentOS 4.5, I decided that I had to  
> > test
> > out VMware Player inside it.  I'd like to colaborate on a project  
> > using
> > VMware Workstation, but would like to use Xen for everything else.
> >
> > Good news:
> > vmware-config.pl runs fine
> > modules install ... virtual machine monitor, etc, vmnet0, vmnet1,  
> > vmnet8
> > all [ OK ]
> > vmplayer fires up fine
> > Select an image config (.vmx) to start
> >
> > Bad news:
> > Almost starts but gives this error...  "You are running VMware
> > Workstation via the Xen hypervisor which is known to be incompatible
> > with VMware Workstation.  You may not power on a virtual machine  
> > until
> > this hypervisor is disabled."
> >
> > Interesting...  It's almost as if...  there might be a way to bypass
> > this and bleed.  Set an env variable?
> >
> > Has anyone had better luck?  By the wording I wonder if an older  
> > version
> > of VMware Player or Workstation would try to work.
> >
> > Interesting,
> > Scott
>
>
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