Hi guys, Maybe I'm over enthusiastic, but I was wondering. I'm running 32bit SUSE 10.1 on a 64bit machine. I know I can't run 64bit binaries on 32bit OS, but is it possible to run a 64bit guest OS inside VMware? I mean, is the x86_64 instruction set available to VMware? Thanks Hans
Hans du Plooy skrev:
Hi guys,
Maybe I'm over enthusiastic, but I was wondering. I'm running 32bit SUSE 10.1 on a 64bit machine. I know I can't run 64bit binaries on 32bit OS, but is it possible to run a 64bit guest OS inside VMware? I mean, is the x86_64 instruction set available to VMware?
Thanks Hans
If you run on VMware Server or VMware ESX, and the host has 64-bit CPUs, then yes, you can run 64-bit guest OS:es... Anders.
On Thursday 18 May 2006 14:25, Hans du Plooy wrote:
Hi guys,
Maybe I'm over enthusiastic, but I was wondering. I'm running 32bit SUSE 10.1 on a 64bit machine. I know I can't run 64bit binaries on 32bit OS, but is it possible to run a 64bit guest OS inside VMware? I mean, is the x86_64 instruction set available to VMware?
With VMware workstation running on a 64Bit OS then you can install 64Bit virtual machines. Last time I looked the beta VMware server would only allow 32Bit guests, although I believe they were working towards getting 64Bit to work. I somehow don't think running VMware on 32Bit suse will allow 64Bit guests even through you are running on 64Bit hardware. I have Vmware running on suse10.1 64bit with suse 10.1 64bit running a a guest without problems although I haven't tested USB support as mentioned earlier in the week on this list.. David -- david@bottrill.org www.bottrill.org Registered Linux user number 330730 Internet Free World Dialup: 683864
On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 15:25 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote:
Maybe I'm over enthusiastic, but I was wondering. I'm running 32bit SUSE 10.1 on a 64bit machine. I know I can't run 64bit binaries on 32bit OS, but is it possible to run a 64bit guest OS inside VMware? I mean, is the x86_64 instruction set available to VMware?
OK, I decided to discard this idea. I setup VMware on SUSE 10.1, fired it up, and guess what? There was a suspended 64bit SUSE still open. So I thought, what the heck, let's tried it. Hit resume, and it worked! This is 64bit guess OS on a 32bit host OS running on 64bit hardware... I tried a few things in it, all seem to work well (mostly command line stuff), shut the machine down. Booted it again, and that worked fine, except my keyboard is dead. So the possibility is there... Hans
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