[sdw2003] VM Ware questions

[James Eitzen]

How do you like running the host on Windows? I have all mine running on
fedora with out a gui and the run super smooth. I would think that the
windows OS has allot of overhead.

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Kinzer, Lowell <lkinzer at ucsd.edu> wrote:

> VMware have a tool on their web site that can test whether your CPU can
> support virtual x64 clients. For Intel EM64T VT-capable processors it
> can only report whether the CPU is capable. You have to verify that the
> VT option is enabled in the host BIOS.
>
> I run VMware Server 1.0.5 on a 32-bit Windows XP Pro w/SP2 system
> equipped with dual Xeon 5110 @ 1.60 GHz CPUs. I've had no trouble
> installing and using 64-bit Windows XP/2003/Vista/2008 and Ubuntu guest
> OSs.
>
> The VMware guest OSs cannot use any more RAM than the host OS can. My
> system has 4 GB installed. Windows XP reports 3.25 GB physical RAM. The
> VMware Server "Reserved Memory" setting shows a maximum of 2991 MB
> (~2.92 GB).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Lowell
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > [mailto:sdw2003-bounces at mattware.com] On Behalf Of James Eitzen
> > Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 12:09 PM
> >
> > I know that with VMWare Server running on Fedora that that
> > the guest OS will
> > recognize the 64 bit processor and the should see the ram also.
> >
> > On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Kelleher, Kevin <
> > kevin.kelleher at mirotechnologies.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I have questions for the VM Ware experts out there. I have
> > a test rig
> > > with a core2 duo and 4 gigs of ram. It has XP Pro 32 bit
> > installed as
> > > the host OS and has VM Workstation 5.5 on it. I need to
> > test out Windows
> > > 2003 64 bit. I have 2 questions. 1) Will the 64 bit guest OS work in
> > > this configuration? 2) Is the memory available to it
> > limited by the host
> > > 32 bit limitation or will it be able to access more than the limit
> > > imposed by the host OS?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Kevin Kelleher
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James Eitzen