On Freitag, 22. August 2008, Anthony Metcalf wrote: > Hi, > > I have a system that started out running on an AMD K6II 450MHz > processor....About 3 months ago, it was upgraded to a Phenom. The > process was pretty painless, recompile kernel, install new hardware, > reboot, rebuild network drivers etc alter C(XX)FLAGS and emerge -e > world.... > > Now I have a system that flies, but I want to be able to use 64Bit > VMware guests...so, I am quite sure I need to have a 64bit system for > VMWare server to allow this... > > I have two theories about how to go about this.....no1, install esx > 3i on a spare drive, make a 32bit Linux guest and point it's drives at > the raw partitions I have now :) no2, alter make.conf to 64bit flags, > and emerge -e world --buildpkgonly then reboot into a 64bit live cd, and > emerge -e world --usepkgonly which should give me a working > system....Obviously the kernel and network drivers would also need > rebuilding at this point again.... > > Will no 2 work?
no. Easiest way: complete reinstall.
