Silly 64-Bit question

[sticky52]

Recently purchased an Athlon64 and want to give 64-Bit Redhat a go, but I'd prefer to run it off of VMWare. My question is if I'm running VMWare on XP and make a virtual install of Redhat, will it actually take advantage of the 64-bit processor?

 

[Nothinman]

Doubt it, unless VMWare released a version that specifically does that.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Doubt it, unless VMWare released a version that specifically does that.

No, VmWare currently does not do any 64bit emulation.
Bill

 

[sticky52]

Yeah, I'm going to go read VMWare's site next time I decide to shoot my mouth off.

Note:VMware Workstation 4 is supported only on host processors and host operating systems running in 32-bit mode; processors and operating systems running in 64-bit mode are not supported.

 

[drag]

You may also may want to take a look at Suse. They have the most mature amd-64 bit support out their. You can download/install it free using their ftp installation method. Then maybe try out Redhat 64-bit or whatever.