x86, vmi: Mark VMI deprecated and schedule it for removal
Add text in feature-removal.txt indicating that VMI will be removed in
the 2.6.37 timeframe.
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
LKML-Reference: <1254193238.13456.48.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com>
[ removed a bogus Kconfig change, marked (DEPRECATED) in Kconfig ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index c876bac..07e01149 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -491,7 +491,7 @@
source "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig"
config VMI
- bool "VMI Guest support"
+ bool "VMI Guest support (DEPRECATED)"
select PARAVIRT
depends on X86_32
---help---
@@ -500,6 +500,15 @@
at the moment), by linking the kernel to a GPL-ed ROM module
provided by the hypervisor.
+ As of September 2009, VMware has started a phased retirement
+ of this feature from VMware's products. Please see
+ feature-removal-schedule.txt for details. If you are
+ planning to enable this option, please note that you cannot
+ live migrate a VMI enabled VM to a future VMware product,
+ which doesn't support VMI. So if you expect your kernel to
+ seamlessly migrate to newer VMware products, keep this
+ disabled.
+
config KVM_CLOCK
bool "KVM paravirtualized clock"
select PARAVIRT