Can I change my server and use the same database (not msqldump/mysqlimport)

[timothy.williams@nvl.army.mil]

We have mysql running on a Linux server now, but an exercise we are
running are causing this machine to bog down. We'd like to just shut
down the server on this machine and start it up on another using the
same database. The setup between the two machines (both Linux RedHat)
are essentially the same. The database is on a separate file server.

Are there any problems in doing this? I would rather not have to dump
the database from one machine and import it on the other, since the
location of the database is not changing, just which machine the server
is.

Thanks for any help.