Bug 313391 - Kernel VMI (Virtual Machine Interface) missing from F7
Summary: Kernel VMI (Virtual Machine Interface) missing from F7
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 7
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-10-01 00:21 UTC by Thomas M Steenholdt
Modified: 2009-09-21 21:36 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-10-01 20:36:42 UTC
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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 :)
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