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On 10/19/2011 07:51 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > On 10/18/2011 08:56 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >>> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org [mailto:discuss- >>> bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Feldman >>> >>> First, does anyone know if VMWare Player 4 will support a 64-bit guest >>> on a 32-bit laptop. >> Nothing will support a 64bit guest on a 32bit host. >> >> > Actually, that is not entirely true. VMWare Workstation installed on a > 32-bit OS will support a 64-bit guest.. AFAIK, the CPU must be 64-bit > with hardware virtualization turned on in the BIOS. AFAIK, we have one > Financial Engineer in the office who is running this way. He was out of > the office on Monday when the question came up. I don't know about > VMWare Player, but we will find out definitively today since my coworker > is installing it on one of her laptops all running XP 32-bit. > I just verified this. My coworker has a Lenovo Thinkpad with an Intel Core i7 processor running Windows XP Pro with PAE (eg 32-bit). The guest OS is Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90
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