Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo VMWare image works on Intel but not AMD. Are they not interchangeable?

[Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za>]

On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Andrey Gerasimenko wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:27:01 +0300, Alan McKinnon
>
> <alan@linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:
> > ....
> >
> >> Does the host CPU make a difference? I thought it was all
> >> emulated? I tried to recompile the kernel with the generic '386
> >> CPU settings and removed all power mgmt etc, and the same issue
> >> happens.
> >
> > The host CPU shouldn't make a difference as a VMWare .vmx is
> > supposed to work the same on all hosts. However, the VMWare version
> > in use on your friend's machine might be broken on AMD, or he has
> > done something dumb.
>
> No, it does make difference. The guest OS uses the same CPU as the
> host, with the exception of the number of available cores. If there
> are 2 or more cores on the host, including virtual ones through
> multithreading, the guest may use 1 or 2 cores. If the host has only
> one core, the guest must be configured to use only one.


Ah, this does make sense.

Daevid, you say you use a P4,a nd your friend is AMD. Does he perhaps 
have an AMD64 or AMD dual core machine?

alan

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