{"id":15,"date":"2007-05-14T10:27:39","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T08:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bussink.ch\/erik\/technology\/enabling-virtual-machine-interface-vmi-in-vmware-workstation-60-ubuntu-704-i386\/"},"modified":"2007-05-14T10:27:39","modified_gmt":"2007-05-14T08:27:39","slug":"enabling-virtual-machine-interface-vmi-in-vmware-workstation-60-ubuntu-704-i386","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Enabling Virtual Machine Interface (VMI) in VMware Workstation 6.0 &#038; Ubuntu 7.04 (i386)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Virtual Machine Interface (VMI) that is provided in the VMware Workstation 6.0 work currently only with the Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04 distro. But it requires the <strong>i386<\/strong> version, not the x86-64. To check if you\u2019re kernel has VMI paravirtual kernel support enabled, you can check the kernel compile config.<br \/>\nCode:<br \/>\n<pre style=&#8221;border: 1px inset ; margin: 0px; padding: 6px; overflow: auto; width: 580px; height: 66px; text-align: left&#8221; dir=&#8221;ltr&#8221; class=&#8221;alt2&#8243; class=\"preserve-code-formatting\"># grep VMI \/boot\/config-2.6.20-15-server\n\nCONFIG_VMI=y<\/pre><br \/>\nThere isn\u2019t much showing inside the virtual machine when it\u2019s running with the paravirtual kernel support. The only quick way I\u2019ve found so far, is to check the APIC timer interrupt. In the Virtual Machine Interface (VMI) enabled machine you have to check the following<\/p>\n<p>Code:<br \/>\n<pre style=&#8221;border: 1px inset ; margin: 0px; padding: 6px; overflow: auto; width: 580px; height: 66px; text-align: left&#8221; dir=&#8221;ltr&#8221; class=&#8221;alt2&#8243; class=\"preserve-code-formatting\"># grep VMI \/proc\/interrupts\n\n0&nbsp;&nbsp; 74&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;IO-APIC-Edge&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;VMI-alarm<\/pre><br \/>\nThe normal APIC timer function has been replaced by a VMI-alarm function.<\/p>\n<p>It goes without saying that you need to activate the VMI paravirtual kernel support in the config of the virtual machine in the Options\/Advanced section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Virtual Machine Interface (VMI) that is provided in the VMware Workstation 6.0 work currently only with the Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04 distro. But it requires the i386 version, not the x86-64. To check if you\u2019re kernel has VMI paravirtual kernel support enabled, you can check the kernel compile config. Code: # grep VMI \/boot\/config-2.6.20-15-server [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,7,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}