In paravirt builds with VMI compiled in, vmi_bringup is called unconditionally, not via a paravirt-ops table (as no other hypervisor uses the APIC startup technique). Make the calls to setup VMI state conditional on the presence of the VMI ROM. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> diff -r 1915e2685a3c arch/i386/kernel/vmi.c --- a/arch/i386/kernel/vmi.c Thu Jan 04 15:56:40 2007 -0800 +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/vmi.c Thu Jan 04 15:57:38 2007 -0800 @@ -645,7 +645,8 @@ void vmi_bringup(void) void vmi_bringup(void) { /* We must establish the lowmem mapping for MMU ops to work */ - vmi_ops.set_linear_mapping(0, __PAGE_OFFSET, max_low_pfn, 0); + if (vmi_rom) + vmi_ops.set_linear_mapping(0, __PAGE_OFFSET, max_low_pfn, 0); } /*