I'd check the VMware guide to see if the server/cpu is supported for ESX 4. ESX4 is itself 64-bit so if the hardware supports it, odds are really good it will support 64-bit guests.
What are your current servers? From: Philip Brothwell [mailto:philip.brothw...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 1:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hardware for 64 bit guest OS in Vmware Correct. CPU and BIOS have to support it. I was hoping someone had some tips on figuring this out BEFORE buying that shiny server off of eBay. On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Richard Stovall <richard.stov...@researchdata.com> wrote: IIRC you have to enable hardware virtualization in the BIOS. If your CPU doesn't do that I think you're out of luck. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization#Hardware_support From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu] Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 1:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hardware for 64 bit guest OS in Vmware VMware has a cpu check util on their site. However, there are certain BIOS setting requirements as well which might be your current problem. They have a support doc on running 64 bit guests that says what is required. -------------------------- Sent using BlackBerry ________________________________ From: Philip Brothwell <philip.brothw...@gmail.com> To: NT System Admin Issues <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Sent: Wed Dec 30 13:26:14 2009 Subject: Hardware for 64 bit guest OS in Vmware Hi, Anyone know of a easy way to tell if a computer will be able to run a 64 bit guest in Vmware? I have two 64 bit machines in my home lab, one running ESXi and one running Vmware Server. Neither will run a 64 guest so I'm looking to upgrade to do some testing with 2008 R2. Any ideas? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
