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Subject: Re: [current] bhyve under VMware borked?
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[Changing my email address...]

> On Nov 7, 2014, at 10:57 AM, Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> wrote:
>=20
> Hi Marcel,
>=20
> What version of VMWare and host are you using ?

This is VMware Fusion 6.0.5 (2209127) running on Mac OS X 10.10.

>=20
>> Any reason why the fallback was removed? Do we need PAT-related
>> exit controls to make vmm work?
>=20
> I saw the problem with a beta version of Fusion 5. It went away with =
the release version, and we made the perhaps wrong assumption that it =
was no longer an issue.
>=20
> It's easy to put that change back.

Ok. If we don't depend on PAT-related exits, then I definitely would
appreciate preserving the -stable behaviour. Maybe we should not check
for the PAT-related exists in the first place? I mean if we don't need
them or depend on them to be there at all...

--=20
Marcel Moolenaar
marcel@xcllnt.net