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I have a VMWare Workstation image of Gentoo Linux that I transfer between my |
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desktop and my notebook (for LAMP/Ruby development) and it works fantastic |
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on both. Both are running WindowsXP as the host VMWare. Both are Pentium4. |
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Recently, I tried to share the image with a co-worker and it pukes out about |
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the time it does some udev stuff at the top of starting up. The (rc.init ?) |
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scripts start breaking and spewing lots of errors and ultimately doesn't |
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mount the filesystem properly. We are able to manually mount it later, but |
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then lost of other things are broken. VMware doesn't have any errors we |
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could find, not even in the logs. It seems to be an OS issue. |
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Does the host CPU make a difference? I thought it was all emulated? I tried |
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to recompile the kernel with the generic '386 CPU settings and removed all |
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power mgmt etc, and the same issue happens. |
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Can I not transfer between Intel and AMD CPUs? Is there some magic thing in |
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the kernel I need to set so it can work on both? |
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We attempted several times and tried using VMWare player and also VMWare |
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workstation. |
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It would really suck to have to have him re-compile everything just to get |
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the same dev environment setup as mine. |
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I also posted this on the VMWare forums in case anyone cares: |
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http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=71079 |
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