On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 06:00:26PM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git) wrote: > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilb...@redhat.com> > > VMWare apparently doesn't like running under QEMU due to our > incomplete emulation of it's special IO Port. This adds a > -machine suboption to allow it to be turned off. > > Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilb...@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> I was able to use this option in order to install VMware ESXi as a guest under KVM. Here are my notes on how to do this: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2014/05/19/notes-on-getting-vmware-esxi-to-run-under-kvm/#content Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/