Thank you all for your suggestions. They have been helpful. It was great to know that this is possible, and I passed on your advice. My friend has initially decided to try out the free (beer) version of Vmware's ESXi server, because it looks easier to setup for a primarily windows user, and apparently has the functionality required. I did pass on your suggestions to try the open source equivalents, but he is familiar with VMware and not a big fan of the command line. Im not keen to push the issue, because I dont want to leave a bad taste for Ubuntu in the future if it dosent work out.
I myself have tried VirtualBox and Xen with varying degrees of success. They were both ok to setup for a Linux guest but much harder to configure for a windows guest. Things have probably changed in the last 12 months though, and Ill give it another go when I get some new hardware. Thanks again, Mike On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:27 PM, daniel sobey <dns_ser...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > --- On Mon, 16/3/09, mike james <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > > From: mike james <mike...@gmail.com> > Subject: Vmware on 64bit ubuntu > To: ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com > Received: Monday, 16 March, 2009, 10:23 AM > > Hi all, > Can anyone tell me if its possible to run Vmware workstation on 64 bit > Ubuntu using more than 4 gig of RAM? > Sorry for the vagueness of the question, but Im doing some research for a > friend who is currently a windows user but is considering 64 Ubuntu so that > he can get better RAM usage to setup a virtual test environment. > > Mike > > --- > > Yes you can run a 64 bit os on a 64 bit vmware, you can run a 32 bit os on > a 64 bit vmware, you can run 64 bit os on a 32 bit os. I believe quemu, > virtualbox, kvm, xen can also do this. > > you can run a "hugemem" kernel to allow a 32 bit os to be able to use more > than 4gb. > > If you are going to build a test environment vmware is a reasonable option > but there is competition. xen is backed by most of the big linux companies > and is open source. > > -- > ubuntu-au mailing list > ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au >
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