[chokeartist]

> Finally my old desktop was Intel and I am working on a lot of kernel/VM stuff. I don't want to switch architecture halfway. I did that before and it was painful.

What? Aside from edge-cases resulting from slightly divergent microcode implementations you should not be dealing with that. They are both x86-64. (Forgive me if I am missing an elephant in the room.)

[rrss]

my memory is that the some of the Intel and AMD architecture extensions (including the various virtualization extensions) are incompatible.