Daevid,<br><br>If your Gentoo installation was compiled with march=p4 or the like, your image will not work on an AMD machine.&nbsp; The way to have them interchangeable is to use march=i686 mtune=p4, that way there are no cpu-specific instructions compiled into your binaries.&nbsp; mtune will just adjust the scheduling to fit the pipeline of your most used arch.&nbsp; The one piece of hardware that cannot be virtualized on an x86 machine is unfortunately the cpu, unless of course you&#39;re running a new cpu with Intel Virtualization or AMD&#39;s Pacifica.&nbsp; Even then, it can&#39;t deal with incompatible binaries.&nbsp; You&#39;ll not just have to recompile your kernel, but your entire system with the new cflags for it to work interchangeably.
<br><br>Jason Weisberger<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Daevid Vincent</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:daevid@daevid.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
daevid@daevid.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I have a VMWare Workstation image of Gentoo Linux that I transfer between my<br>desktop and my notebook (for LAMP/Ruby development) and it works fantastic<br>on both. Both are running WindowsXP as the host VMWare. Both are Pentium4.
<br><br>Recently, I tried to share the image with a co-worker and it pukes out about<br>the time it does some udev stuff at the top of starting up. The (rc.init ?)<br>scripts start breaking and spewing lots of errors and ultimately doesn&#39;t
<br>mount the filesystem properly. We are able to manually mount it later, but<br>then lost of other things are broken. VMware doesn&#39;t have any errors we<br>could find, not even in the logs. It seems to be an OS issue.
<br><br>Does the host CPU make a difference? I thought it was all emulated? I tried<br>to recompile the kernel with the generic &#39;386 CPU settings and removed all<br>power mgmt etc, and the same issue happens.<br><br>
Can I not transfer between Intel and AMD CPUs? Is there some magic thing in
<br>the kernel I need to set so it can work on both?<br><br>We attempted several times and tried using VMWare player and also VMWare<br>workstation.<br><br>It would really suck to have to have him re-compile everything just to get
<br>the same dev environment setup as mine.<br><br>I also posted this on the VMWare forums in case anyone cares:<br><a href="http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=71079" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=71079
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<br>Jason Weisberger<br><a href="mailto:jbdubbs@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">jbdubbs@gmail.com
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