From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HEQ68-0002D8-AE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:11:01 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l16D9ioY006617; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 13:09:44 GMT Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za (sqlprd.sybase.co.za [192.96.139.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l16D2AXv029264 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 13:02:11 GMT Received: from localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 414C1834CD for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 15:09:01 +0200 (SAST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sybase.co.za Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id OgclA0gvnGuR for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 15:08:52 +0200 (SAST) Received: from bard.sybase.co.za (bard.sybase.co.za [192.168.2.6]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A1D1834DC for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 15:08:48 +0200 (SAST) Received: from nazgul.sybase.co.za ([192.168.2.68]) by bard.sybase.co.za with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Tue, 6 Feb 2007 15:03:51 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo VMWare image works on Intel but not AMD. Are they not interchangeable? Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 14:58:55 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <200702060927.01189.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200702061458.55165.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Feb 2007 13:03:51.0874 (UTC) FILETIME=[3FBD7220:01C749EF] X-Archives-Salt: f4f8a471-483d-4cd6-9381-df025894b5cf X-Archives-Hash: fef9c7349a096b9e2571e594d518171b On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: > On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:27:01 +0300, Alan McKinnon > > 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 -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list