Bug 313391

Summary: Kernel VMI (Virtual Machine Interface) missing from F7
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Thomas M Steenholdt <tmus>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Thomas M Steenholdt 2007-10-01 00:21:31 UTC
Description of problem:
The F7 Release Summary located at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F7ReleaseSummary
states that;
"The kernel included in this release also has support for VMWare's VMI
interface", but it doesn't appear to be the case, at least with the latest
kernel updates. grep'ing for VMI in /boot/config* yields nothing. grep'ing for
PARAVIRT, only unset features are found...

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.22.7-85.fc7

Expected results:
I would expect to see VMI stuff, when it's mentioned on the release summary.

Comment 1 Dave Jones 2007-10-01 20:36:42 UTC
The release notes were incorrect.  (Just fixed up the wiki to remove this
incorrect info)
VMI (or more correctly, paravirt) in 2.6.21 had a performance hit attached to it
which made it not feasible to ship.

In the current builds for F8, this performance hit seems to have been addressed.


Comment 2 Thomas M Steenholdt 2007-10-01 21:10:48 UTC
Cool! Thanks a lot :)