On 12/03/20 17:54, Liran Alon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This series aims to fix several bugs in VMPort and improve it by supporting
> more VMPort commands and make command results more configurable to
> user via QEMU command-line.
>
> This functionality was proven to be useful to run various VMware VMs
> when attempting to run them as-is on top of QEMU/KVM.
>
> For more details, see commit messages.
>
> Regards,
> -Liran
>
> v1->v2:
> * Fix coding convention [Patchew Bot & MST].
> * Create new header file for vmport.h [MST].
> * Move KVM_APIC_BUS_FREQUENCY from linux-headers/asm-x86/kvm.h
> auto-generated header [MST]
> * Elaborate more that vmx-version refers to the VMware userspace
> VMM in commit message. [MST]
> * Use le32_to_cpu() on BIOS_UUID vmport command. [MST]
> * Introduce VMPort compatability version property to maintain migration
> compatibility. [MST]
>
> v2->v3:
> - Repalce VMPort compatability version property with multiple boolean
> compatability properties. [MST]
> - Prefix "vmx-*" properties with "vmware-vmx-*" to avoid confusion with
> Intel VT-x short name. Prefix suggested by MST. [MST]
> - Remove VMX_Type enum and instead hard-code default vmware-vmx-type
> value and only reference open-vm-tools for rest of values. [MST]
> - Add reference (link) to VMware open-vm-tools code. [MST]
>
I actually agree with Liran on most comments, so I just dropped the
GETTIME and GETTIMEFULL functionality and queued everything else.
Thanks,
Paolo