Hi Ingo,
On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 00:42 -0700, Ingo Molnar wrote:
The thing is, the overwhelming majority of vmware users dont benefit
from hardware features like nested page tables yet. So this needs to be
done _way_ more carefully, with a proper sunset period of a couple of
kernel cycles.
I am fine with that too. Below is a patch which adds notes in
feature-removal-schedule.txt, I have marked it for removal from 2.6.34.
Please consider this patch for 2.6.32.
config VMI
- bool "VMI Guest support"
- select PARAVIRT
- depends on X86_32
+ bool "VMI Guest support [will be deprecated soon]"
+ default n
+ depends on X86_32&& PARAVIRT
---help---
VMI provides a paravirtualized interface to the VMware ESX server
(it could be used by other hypervisors in theory too, but is not
at the moment), by linking the kernel to a GPL-ed ROM module
provided by the hypervisor.
+ VMware has started a phased retirement of this feature from there
+ products. Please see feature-removal-schedule.txt for details.