[APPLIED] [PATCH 1/1] [Maverick] UBUNTU: [Config] disable CONFIG_VMI
Leann Ogasawara
leann.ogasawara at canonical.com
Mon Jun 21 20:41:49 UTC 2010
Applied to Maverick linux master.
Thanks,
Leann
On Sat, 2010-06-19 at 11:18 +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> As indicated in the option descripion (below) Hypervisor support for VMI is
> now deprecated and supporting its use is a negative for portability
> of your kernel image. Turn it off.
>
> As of September 2009, VMware has started a phased retirement
> of this feature from VMware's products. Please see
> feature-removal-schedule.txt for details. If you are
> planning to enable this option, please note that you cannot
> live migrate a VMI enabled VM to a future VMware product,
> which doesn't support VMI. So if you expect your kernel to
> seamlessly migrate to newer VMware products, keep this
> disabled.
>
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/537601
> Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw at canonical.com>
> ---
> debian.master/config/config.common.ubuntu | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/debian.master/config/config.common.ubuntu b/debian.master/config/config.common.ubuntu
> index 59dd011..36abdf0 100644
> --- a/debian.master/config/config.common.ubuntu
> +++ b/debian.master/config/config.common.ubuntu
> @@ -4857,7 +4857,7 @@ CONFIG_VLSI_FIR=m
> CONFIG_VM86=y
> CONFIG_VME_BUS=m
> CONFIG_VME_USER=m
> -CONFIG_VMI=y
> +# CONFIG_VMI is not set
> CONFIG_VMIVME_7805=m
> # CONFIG_VMSPLIT_1G is not set
> # CONFIG_VMSPLIT_2G is not set
> --
> 1.7.0.4
>
>
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