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Chapter 4 Creating and Upgrading a Virtual Machine
Use a Paravirtualized Kernel in Linux Guests
Since2005,VMwarehasbeencollaboratingwiththeLinuxcommunitytodevelopa
commonparavirtualizationinterface.In2006,VMwarereleaseditsVMIspecificationas
anopenspecification.ItallowsVMwarevirtualmachinestosupportvarious
paravirtualizedoperatingsystemsfrompopularLinuxdistributions.
Beforeyoubegin,obtaininstallationmedia(CDorISOim
age)fortheoperatingsystem.
Paravirtualizedkernelsupportisavailablefor32‐bitversionsofUbuntu7.04,7.10,or
8.04andSUSELinuxEnterpriseServer10SP2.
The64‐bitversionofSUSELinuxEnterpriseServer10SP2alreadycontains
paravirtualization.YoudonotneedtouseaWorkstationsettingtoen
ableit.
Formoreinformationaboutparavirtualizationingeneral,seethefollowingVMware
Websiteat:
http://www.vmware.com/interfaces/paravirtualization.html
IfyouhaveaVMwareVMI(VirtualMachineInterface)enabledkernelintheguest
operatingsystem,youwillseeimprovedperformanceifyouenableparavirtual
supportinthevirtualmachine.
To use a paravirtualized kernel in Linux guests
1UsetheNewVirtualMachinewizardtocrea
tevi
rtualmachineforoneofthe
supported32‐bitguestoperatingsystems.
2Afteryoufinishcreatingthevirtualmachine,enableparavirtualkernelsupport,as
follows:
a ChooseVM>Settings.
bOntheHardwaretab,selectProcessors,andintheExecutionModesection,
selecttheVMwarekernelparavirtualizationcheckbox.
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