I've found that if I try to create a new VMware virtual machine on our
Dual-Opteron server (SuSE SLES8 64-bit) I get a segfault and it crashes
during the guest OS install. However if I create the VM on another (32-bit)
server first and then copy that virtual machine onto the Dual-Opteron
server, it runs just fine on it!
Weird!
-----Original Message-----
From: jerry bookter [mailto:jerryb1961@yahoo.com]
Sent: Saturday, 18 September 2004 7:15 p.m.
To: suse-amd64@suse.com
Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Giving up on 64-bit Linux for now
Well folks, if it's any consolation to the rest of
you, I too have shelved 64-bit Linux for now, but it
isn't SuSE's fault per se... I cannot get Vmware to
run under *any* 64-bit distro. I know that others here
have, and I can only conclude that it must be some
peculiarity of my hardware. Even Vmware's tech support
couldn't figure out what was going wrong. I figure in
a month or two they'll get everything worked out and
there'll be a new build available that works. Very
soon now the number of AMD64 users is going to reach
some sort of critical mass and I think we'll see more
wholehearted efforts from commercial developers like
them. For now though, it's a damn shame to be
'wasting' all that extra power under the hood running
a 32-bit OS.
--- Scott Leighton
On Friday 17 September 2004 7:01 pm, me@prestoncrawford.com wrote:
I wonder what my problem is, then. I turned SATA off. Is there any particular setting you tweaked in the BIOS? Did you upgrade the BIOS? Did you do anything different?
I did absolutely nothing. Bought the box, brought it home, it had XP installed so I installed SuSE 64 bit dual boot and off I went. The only thing I changed in BIOS was the boot order, to have the CDROM boot first.
It's using the on-board video, sound and network, has a Western Digital 80gb IDE drive and 512 mb DDR 400 memory.
Scott
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