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...T. - VMware The BIOS provides a RSDT and XSDT. Available tables are RSDT, FACP, DSDT(*), FACS(*), BOOT(*), APIC(*) and XSDT, FACP, DSDT(*), FACS(*), BOOT(*), APIC(*). Tables marked with an asterisk (*) are identical; FACP tables from RSDT and XSDT are different. memdisk-acpi is not able to hook. acpi_bytes_needed() from acpi.c tries to find a DSDT or SSDT. It fails to find a DSDT because RSDT doesn't point to DSDT; RSDT points to FACP which points to DSDT. After fixing this problem memdisk-acpi is able to hook the DSDT on VMware. Unfortunately it's unclear to me what we gain by hooking the DSDT/SS...