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Daevid, |
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If your Gentoo installation was compiled with march=p4 or the like, your |
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image will not work on an AMD machine. The way to have them interchangeable |
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is to use march=i686 mtune=p4, that way there are no cpu-specific |
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instructions compiled into your binaries. mtune will just adjust the |
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scheduling to fit the pipeline of your most used arch. The one piece of |
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hardware that cannot be virtualized on an x86 machine is unfortunately the |
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cpu, unless of course you're running a new cpu with Intel Virtualization or |
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AMD's Pacifica. Even then, it can't deal with incompatible binaries. |
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You'll not just have to recompile your kernel, but your entire system with |
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the new cflags for it to work interchangeably. |
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Jason Weisberger |
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On 2/5/07, Daevid Vincent <daevid@××××××.com> wrote: |
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> I have a VMWare Workstation image of Gentoo Linux that I transfer between |
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> 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 |
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> 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 |
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> 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 |
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> 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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> gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
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Jason Weisberger |
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jbdubbs@×××××.com |
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