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Hi, |
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I have a system that started out running on an AMD K6II 450MHz |
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processor....About 3 months ago, it was upgraded to a Phenom. The |
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process was pretty painless, recompile kernel, install new hardware, |
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reboot, rebuild network drivers etc alter C(XX)FLAGS and emerge -e world.... |
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Now I have a system that flies, but I want to be able to use 64Bit |
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VMware guests...so, I am quite sure I need to have a 64bit system for |
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VMWare server to allow this... |
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I have two theories about how to go about this.....no1, install esx |
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3i on a spare drive, make a 32bit Linux guest and point it's drives at |
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the raw partitions I have now :) no2, alter make.conf to 64bit flags, |
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and emerge -e world --buildpkgonly then reboot into a 64bit live cd, and |
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emerge -e world --usepkgonly which should give me a working |
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system....Obviously the kernel and network drivers would also need |
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rebuilding at this point again.... |
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Will no 2 work? |
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I don't really want to go the route of 1 as I will need a windows |
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box for the esx admin, and if I was putting esx on this machine, I would |
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want to have more storage first and manage the esx storage properly, |
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rather than using raw drives....... |
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Comments? Ideas? |
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Anthony |
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