Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 00/10] Xen VMware tools support

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 19:46 -0500, Don Slutz wrote:
> On 12/17/13 14:03, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 02:15:08PM -0500, Don Slutz wrote:
> >> From: Don Slutz <dslutz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> See
> >>
> >> http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1009458
> > Can you say how this benefits Xen to detect this and take
> > advantage of it? Or is this Xen emulating VMWare so to a guest
> > it looks like its running under VMWare?
> This is Xen emulating part of VMWare.  Some parts of guests will think 
> it is running on VMware.

That doesn't answer the important part Konrad's question though: how
this benefits Xen.

A series like this should have a cover letter which explains what the
feature is, what use case it solves, why this is a useful thing and why
it is worth the burden of maintaining it going forward.

Ian.



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