> I'm curious how other sysadmins rapidly deploy a slew of new Gentoo > systems? In this case I'm setting up many dozens of Gentoo servers > inside of VMware ESX and having to destroy and redeploy said systems > regularly. > > The "hardware" (virtual, of course) varies ever so slightly, so > cloning (via ESX or dd) is not an option.
Different hardware shouldn't preclude this approach. Just make sure all the relevant modules are built and the OS should load what it needs.
