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VMware Updates Linux Patches For Running VMware Workstation Atop KVM
One of the biggest surprises of last year was finding out that VMware has been working on shifting VMware Workstation from proprietary code to building atop the upstream KVM code within the Linux kernel
The most significant change in this series is the introduction of CONFIG_KVM_VMWARE which is, in general, a nice cleanup for various bits of VMware compatibility code that have been scattered around KVM. - ability to turn on the VMware backdoor at runtime on a per-vm basis (used to be a kernel boot argument only) In current form the v2 patch series is introducing just a few hundred lines of new code to the KVM area of the kernel.
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