[arch-general] archlinux in vmware server 2 beta in archlinux x86_64 systems

Roman Kyrylych roman.kyrylych at gmail.com
Fri Aug 29 02:49:24 EDT 2008


2008/8/27 Geoffroy Carrier <geoffroy.carrier at koon.fr>:
> Hello!
>
> I'm more or less still working on providing x86_64+i686 virtual
> machines on a compilation machine to devs and TUs.
> Problem staying unresolved for days and days: the Arch Linux
> installation media kernel detects the VM as a 32 bits system.
> Does anyone have an experience with it?

We're using VMware Server 1.0.x here at work, and Arch didn't have any
problems installing there,
so probably it's some regression in 2.0 beta, I guess it may be
somehow related to CPU that VMware reports.
What CPU do you have? Is hardware acceleration enabled? And did you
try some other distro?

-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)


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