Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Oct 2008 20:05:36 +0800 | From | Yan Li <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] Suppress false "mtrr all empty" warning message when running as VMware guest |
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On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 10:03:51PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > Subject says: Suppress false "mtrr all empty" .... would you explain > why is the message false? I believe it is very true, and points out > fact that VMWare virtualization fails to simulate MTRR-s. > > IMO VMWare should just fix their emulator.
You are right, to some degree. Actually I have no strong evidence to support this either. Since KVM doesn't set MTRR, by hunch I thought VMware might having similar shortages. Also nothing bad can be observed after the system booted, so I guessed that warning was useless. Moreover, none other OSes (include old Linux kernels) is complaining about this in VMware so users of VMware might think 2.6.27 is buggy on this.
Hope someone from VMware could clear this up. I think they are working on this problem followed this thread. I'd be happy to help.
-- Li, Yan
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