1. 24 Aug, 2010 1 commit
  2. 23 Aug, 2010 2 commits
    • Alok Kataria's avatar
      x86, vmware: Remove deprecated VMI kernel support · 9863c90f
      Alok Kataria authored
      With the recent innovations in CPU hardware acceleration technologies
      from Intel and AMD, VMware ran a few experiments to compare these
      techniques to guest paravirtualization technique on VMware's platform.
      These hardware assisted virtualization techniques have outperformed the
      performance benefits provided by VMI in most of the workloads. VMware
      expects that these hardware features will be ubiquitous in a couple of
      years, as a result, VMware has started a phased retirement of this
      feature from the hypervisor.
      
      Please note that VMI has always been an optimization and non-VMI kernels
      still work fine on VMware's platform.
      Latest versions of VMware's product which support VMI are,
      Workstation 7.0 and VSphere 4.0 on ESX side, future maintainence
      releases for these products will continue supporting VMI.
      
      For more details about VMI retirement take a look at this,
      http://blogs.vmware.com/guestosguide/2009/09/vmi-retirement.html
      
      This feature removal was scheduled for 2.6.37 back in September 2009.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
      LKML-Reference: <1282600151.19396.22.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
      9863c90f
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux 2.6.36-rc2 · 76be97c1
      Linus Torvalds authored
      76be97c1
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