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2008/8/22 Anthony Metcalf <nevyn@××××××××××.uk> |
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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 process |
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> was pretty painless, recompile kernel, install new hardware, reboot, rebuild |
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> 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 VMware |
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> guests...so, I am quite sure I need to have a 64bit system for VMWare server |
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> to allow this... |
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Not exactly. For CPU w/ vm support, one can run 64 bit guest on 32 host. At |
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least work for Core 2 CPU. |
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> I have two theories about how to go about this.....no1, install esx 3i on |
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> a spare drive, make a 32bit Linux guest and point it's drives at the raw |
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> partitions I have now :) no2, alter make.conf to 64bit flags, and emerge -e |
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> world --buildpkgonly then reboot into a 64bit live cd, and emerge -e world |
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> --usepkgonly which should give me a working system....Obviously the kernel |
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> and network drivers would also need 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 box for |
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> the esx admin, and if I was putting esx on this machine, I would want to |
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> have more storage first and manage the esx storage properly, rather than |
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> using raw drives....... |
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> Comments? Ideas? |
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> Anthony |
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