"Dmitriy Budko" dbudko@vmware.com writes:
From: Ronald G. Minnich On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Dmitriy Budko wrote:
Does anybody needs LinuxBIOS for VMware virtual machines? If you want it please describe why do you want it.
it would sure make it easier to do full-up sims of linuxbios-equipped systems.
So, you don't need it for "production" systems, only for development, do you?
How difficult is it to port Intel 440BX chipset support from V1 to V2?
Not terribly hard. It is more of a time/desire thing. Does vmware accurately simulate what is required to bring memory up or do we get to short cut that. If the latter the porting could be done very quickly. Memory initialization is generally the hard part, of a LinuxBIOS port and would likely be trivial under vmware :)
It seems to me that supporting a new SIO chips (the emulated NS PC97338/PC87338) should be easy.
Right it should not be a problem there.
The case that was discussed recently with vmware was to do things the other way around. The observation was made that for server clusters dedicated to running vmware, running LinuxBIOS underneath could help boot time and cluster management.
Eric