I need to get a new computer and am looking at Intel E6600 Core 2 Duo. I'll be running Centos5.
I have a couple of VMware Workstation 6 licenses, is there a way to install and run 64 bit inside an VMware virtual machine?
I don't care about performance, it's only for testing and debugging purposes. This is not production.
Any suggestion?
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of centos@911networks.com Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 9:10 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] 64 bit
I need to get a new computer and am looking at Intel E6600 Core 2 Duo. I'll be running Centos5.
I have a couple of VMware Workstation 6 licenses, is there a way to install and run 64 bit inside an VMware virtual machine?
I don't care about performance, it's only for testing and debugging purposes. This is not production.
Any suggestion?
No not yet, but you can get the latest Xen to run 64-bit guests, I had Windows 2003 R2 64-bit Enterprise running in Xen 3.0.4.
-Ross
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On 7/6/07, centos@911networks.com centos@911networks.com wrote:
I need to get a new computer and am looking at Intel E6600 Core 2 Duo. I'll be running Centos5.
I have a couple of VMware Workstation 6 licenses, is there a way to install and run 64 bit inside an VMware virtual machine?
I don't care about performance, it's only for testing and debugging purposes. This is not production.
Any suggestion?
Maybe this release note for WS6 helps?
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws6/doc/releasenotes_ws6.html
I've been running CentOS x86_64 on a VMware Workstation 5 host.
Akemi
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 18:37:53 -0700 "Akemi Yagi" amyagi@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/6/07, centos@911networks.com centos@911networks.com wrote:
I need to get a new computer and am looking at Intel E6600 Core 2 Duo. I'll be running Centos5.
I have a couple of VMware Workstation 6 licenses, is there a way to install and run 64 bit inside an VMware virtual machine?
I don't care about performance, it's only for testing and debugging purposes. This is not production.
Any suggestion?
Maybe this release note for WS6 helps?
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws6/doc/releasenotes_ws6.html
I've been running CentOS x86_64 on a VMware Workstation 5 host.
1. Thank you, this led me to the answer: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&exte...
Hardware and Firmware Requirements for 64-Bit Guest Operating Systems:
Intel
Intel CPUs require EM64T and VT support in the chip and in the BIOS.
Intel EM64T CPUs do not have segmentation support in long mode. If the Intel EM64T CPU is VT-capable, it comes with hardware virtualization support (Intel's Vanderpool Technology). This hardware virtualization support allows Workstation and VMware Server to work around the lack of segmentation, making it possible to run 64-bit guest operating systems on Intel EM64T VT-capable CPUs. Note: Firmware/BIOS support is required to enable Intel Virtualization Technology. Some systems (particularly laptops) do not have the necessary firmware/BIOS support to enable Intel Virtualization Technology, and cannot run 64-bit guest operating systems.
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Ross S. W. Walker