2008/8/22 Anthony Metcalf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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...
Not exactly. For CPU w/ vm support, one can run 64 bit guest on 32 host. At least work for Core 2 CPU. > > > 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? > > I don't really want to go the route of 1 as I will need a windows box for > the esx admin, and if I was putting esx on this machine, I would want to > have more storage first and manage the esx storage properly, rather than > using raw drives....... > > Comments? Ideas? > > Anthony > > -- Zhixu Liu
