Re: [gentoo-amd64] VMware Player on Gentoo question

["Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On 3/11/06, Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon@decoulon.ch> wrote:
> On Saturday 11 March 2006 19.57, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Answering self:
> >
> > On 3/11/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 1) Does it matter?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > > 2) Is it possibly because of my chroot?
> >
> > Most probably yes.
> >
> > > I'll comtinue on and see how it goes.
> >
> > When you are running do you see new modules loaded? When I try to run
> > insode the chroot I end up with this message:
> >
> > lightning portage # Parallels
> > Module vm-main is not found! Parallels Workstation 2.0 is installed,
> > but it has not been configured for your running kernel. To configure
> > it please login as root and run Parallels-config. For more information
> > see the INSTALL file in Parallels Workstation 2.0 documentation
> > directory.
> > lightning portage #
> >
> > Almost certainy this is beacuse of being the the chroot jail and not
> > being able to load the module in the 64-bit environment I suppose.
> >
> > Ho humm......
> >
> > - Mark
>
> I'd say you are right.
> I would suggest you send a message to parallels support. I did that to make
> sure about the license number and got a very fast answer.
>
> This would confirm your hypothesis and make them aware there may be a market
> for a 64 bit version...
>
> Thierry
>

Done. Thanks for the help. I'll report back when they answer. Most
likely there is just no support, or maybe even some technical reason
why we cannot run a 64-bit Linux install along side of a 32-bit
Windows install. I've asked for some info on that. We'll see.

QUESTION: Should I not (somehow) be able to boot my chrooted 32-bit
environment instead of 64-bit as a grub option? I've not tried to do
that on this machine. It's always run 64-bit from day 1.

Cheers,
Mark

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