2008/8/22 Anthony Metcalf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I have a system that started out running on an AMD K6II 450MHz
processorAbout 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 systemObviously 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
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Zhixu Liu
