[Discuss] VMWare Player question

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

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.

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