vmware-vmx-version is a number returned from CMD_GETVERSION which specifies
to guest VMware Tools the the host VMX version. If the host reports a number
that is different than what the guest VMware Tools expects, it may force
guest to upgrade VMware Tools. (See comment above VERSION_MAGIC and
VmCheck_IsVirtualWorld() function in open-vm-tools open-source code).
For better readability and allow maintaining compatability for guests
which may expect different vmware-vmx-version, make vmware-vmx-version a
VMPort object property. This would allow user to control it's value via
"-global vmport.vmware-vmx-version=X".
Reviewed-by: Nikita Leshenko <nikita.leshche...@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Liran Alon <liran.a...@oracle.com>
---
hw/i386/vmport.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/hw/i386/vmport.c b/hw/i386/vmport.c
index e67c7bb2afea..8e662303d5d3 100644
--- a/hw/i386/vmport.c
+++ b/hw/i386/vmport.c
@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ typedef struct VMPortState {
VMPortReadFunc *func[VMPORT_ENTRIES];
void *opaque[VMPORT_ENTRIES];
+ uint32_t vmware_vmx_version;
+
uint32_t compat_flags;
} VMPortState;
@@ -138,7 +140,7 @@ static uint32_t vmport_cmd_get_version(void *opaque,
uint32_t addr)
X86CPU *cpu = X86_CPU(current_cpu);
cpu->env.regs[R_EBX] = VMPORT_MAGIC;
- return 6;
+ return port_state->vmware_vmx_version;
}
static uint32_t vmport_cmd_ram_size(void *opaque, uint32_t addr)
@@ -200,6 +202,11 @@ static Property vmport_properties[] = {
VMPORT_COMPAT_READ_SET_EAX_BIT, true),
DEFINE_PROP_BIT("x-signal-unsupported-cmd", VMPortState, compat_flags,
VMPORT_COMPAT_SIGNAL_UNSUPPORTED_CMD_BIT, true),
+
+ /* Default value taken from open-vm-tools code VERSION_MAGIC definition */
+ DEFINE_PROP_UINT32("vmware-vmx-version", VMPortState,
+ vmware_vmx_version, 6),
+
DEFINE_PROP_END_OF_LIST(),
};
--
2.20.1
