[Discuss] VMWare Player question

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 10/18/2011 11:22 AM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On Oct 18, 2011, at 11:07 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> First, does anyone know if VMWare Player 4 will support a 64-bit guest
>> on a 32-bit laptop.
> It will not.  64-bit guests require 64-bit CPUs.
I am pretty sure that VMWare Workstation will host a 64-bit guest on a
32-bit host.
>> Second, if the laptop has a 64-bit CPU, but a 32-bit OS (Windows XP).
> This should work if the laptop has VT-x and it is enabled.
There are 2 settings in the Thinkpad BIOS.
>> A related question that I'll probably get answered a bit later.
>> We have Oracle XE configured on these cloned VMs. One coworker things
>> that we have to reinstall Oracle. I'd like to be able to retain the data
>> (schemas, roles, and table spaces).
> Your cow-orker is mistaken.  Data is data.  Even if you use raw volumes.  A copy of the container is a copy of the container, and you can verify this with MD5 sums.  Licensing may be an issue but that's a different issue than it not working at all.
I just verified. I started Oracle-xe as a service and I was unable to
connect. There is an oracle configuration utility that I can run. I
agree that it should not need a reinstallation.

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