SLES10 Sp2 vmi kernel and VMware ESX - problem

"Alexei_Roudnev" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.oracle.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
We found a very serious problem with this (recommende) combination:
- if I run Vmware ESX gues LInux SuSe Enterprise Server 10 (32 bits)
- Enable ParaVirtualization
- Install last VMI kernel.

Then everything works, from the first glance. But if we run big Java 
application, then Java loops or freeze on new memory locking mechanizm 
(FUTEX). IT happens in PeraVirtualization mode only.

As a result, new paravirtualization support, offered by SLES10 SP2, don't 
work as it should (I can use it with the Oracle but not with the java).

VM support can't make much progress on it, and I am not sure, where the bug 
really is.

PS. What is more interesting - bug is not easy to reproduce if guest disks 
arte on the local controller, but is pretty easy to reproduce if Vmware gues 
is allocated on iSCSI disks (they are iSCSI for VMware, and are just normal 
disks for the Linux guest).


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