Bug 430935

Summary: RFE: Virtual Machine Interface (VMI), which depends on paravirt_ops, to be included and enabled in the RHEL 6 kernel.
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: David Mair <dmair>
Component: kernelAssignee: Aristeu Rozanski <arozansk>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: high    
Version: 6.0CC: arozansk, cbuckley, chrisw, dash, drussell, duck, esammons, gpaterno, iannis, lwang, mwhittaker, notting, riel, sbeal, sghosh, snagar, syeghiay, tao
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: FutureFeature, Triaged
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OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: kernel-2.6.32-15.el6 Doc Type: Enhancement
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Comment 19 Rik van Riel 2009-09-20 22:12:56 UTC 
VMware has abandoned VMI in favor of better hardware support for virtualization: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/9/17/466

I suspect we should do the same for RHEL 6.