On Tue, 16 May 2006, James Ausmus wrote:
> On 16 May 2006 17:56:14 -0500, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > So cutting to the chase here:
> >
> > Do you think this being an athlon64 will have a bad effect on gentoo
> > install or will it install as on any other machine and maybe even
> > allow me to use the 64bit version if I felt adventurous?
> >
> Nope - VMWare doesn't give the guest OS a hardware copy of what the
> host machine is - it does software emulation of the entire computer -
> BIOS, CPU, Video Card, Hard Drive (unless you go for RAW access to a
> specified hard drive), sound, etc etc. IIRC the CPU it emulates is a
> Pentium-III - don't remember how fast...
>
At least in my situation, Gentoo only sees the real cpu (/proc/cpuinfo
shows model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz blah blah). I
have built everything accordingly and used it as a 3.2ghz P4 with no
problems.
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