
VMWare Workstation 5.5 supports 32 and 64-bit guests
by
rastix
on Fri 28 Oct 2005 01:58 PM CEST
A new feature of VMWare Workstation 5.5 is support for 32 and 64-bit guests. These guests can run simultaneously on the same machine provided that you run VMWare Workstation on 64-bit hardware. You do not need to run a 64-bit host os to have 64-bit guest os's.
If you think that any 64-bit capable CPU will be ok, think again. Only specific CPUs (revisions) are supported:
- AMD Opteron Rev. E or later (full support)
- Athlon64 Rev. D or later (full support)
- Intel VT enabled processor (experimental)
VMWare Workstation 5.5 will automatically check if your CPU supports 64-bit guests. Also check out http://www.vmware.com/products/beta/ws/ for more info.