[Discuss] VMWare Player question

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

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.

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