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Migrating virtual (VMWare) wokstations from AMD to Intel hardware

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http://serverfault.com – We're a small dev team that runs instances VMWare Ubuntu hosted on AMD x64 machines. Our hardware will be upgraded to Intel i7, but we want to continue to use the virtual images we've built. But according to the page on VMWare, there are problems when moving virtual machine guests between hardware hosts using different instruction-sets (such as found in 64-bit Intel and AMD CPU How do you run the same virtual guest image on different hardware, if the instruction sets are different? Is there additional VMWare product tool to use for this purpose? (HowTos)

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