Re: kexec with vmware esx 3.0.2

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Fri Oct 03 2008 - 17:40:58 EST


On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Zachary Amsden <zach@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 14:08 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> anyone tried to use linux kernel to kexec vmware esx?
>
> That would not be a recommended practice. It might work. It should not
> be very useful.
>

esx 3.0.2 relys on correct mps table,
could boot linux with update_mptable or alloc_mptable, and then load
vmware with kexec.

YH
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