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authorAlok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>2010-08-23 14:49:11 -0700
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>2010-08-23 15:18:50 -0700
commit9863c90f682fba34cdc26c3437e8c00da6c83fa4 (patch)
treef21d698fc8e9e06e9205d2a941646617aeb8f31c /arch/x86/Kconfig
parent76be97c1fc945db08aae1f1b746012662d643e97 (diff)
x86, vmware: Remove deprecated VMI kernel support
With the recent innovations in CPU hardware acceleration technologies from Intel and AMD, VMware ran a few experiments to compare these techniques to guest paravirtualization technique on VMware's platform. These hardware assisted virtualization techniques have outperformed the performance benefits provided by VMI in most of the workloads. VMware expects that these hardware features will be ubiquitous in a couple of years, as a result, VMware has started a phased retirement of this feature from the hypervisor. Please note that VMI has always been an optimization and non-VMI kernels still work fine on VMware's platform. Latest versions of VMware's product which support VMI are, Workstation 7.0 and VSphere 4.0 on ESX side, future maintainence releases for these products will continue supporting VMI. For more details about VMI retirement take a look at this, http://blogs.vmware.com/guestosguide/2009/09/vmi-retirement.html This feature removal was scheduled for 2.6.37 back in September 2009. Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com> LKML-Reference: <1282600151.19396.22.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index cea0cd9a316f..f0ee331feeab 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -517,25 +517,6 @@ if PARAVIRT_GUEST
source "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig"
-config VMI
- bool "VMI Guest support (DEPRECATED)"
- select PARAVIRT
- depends on X86_32
- ---help---
- VMI provides a paravirtualized interface to the VMware ESX server
- (it could be used by other hypervisors in theory too, but is not
- at the moment), by linking the kernel to a GPL-ed ROM module
- provided by the hypervisor.
-
- As of September 2009, VMware has started a phased retirement
- of this feature from VMware's products. Please see
- feature-removal-schedule.txt for details. If you are
- planning to enable this option, please note that you cannot
- live migrate a VMI enabled VM to a future VMware product,
- which doesn't support VMI. So if you expect your kernel to
- seamlessly migrate to newer VMware products, keep this
- disabled.
-
config KVM_CLOCK
bool "KVM paravirtualized clock"
select PARAVIRT