Specifications

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each guest; see your guest operating system and application documentation for their
memory requirements.
• Minimum: 512MB
• Maximum: 64GB for Windows hosts and Linux hosts that support large memory
or are PAE-enabled, 4GB for non-PAE-enabled Windows hosts or 2GB for Linux
hosts with kernels in the 2.2.x series
Display
• 16-bit display adapter recommended; greater than 256-color (8-bit) display
adapter required
Note: Linux hosts must have an X server that meets the X11R6 specification
(such as XFree86) and a video adapter supported by that server to run guest
operating systems in full screen mode. If an X server is not installed, you must
install one, such as XFree86. XFree86 version 3.3.4 or higher is recommended,
with XFree86 4.0 preferred.
Host Hard Disk
• 130MB free disk space on Windows hosts required for server, VMware
Management Interface, VmPerl API, VmCOM API and VMware Virtual Machine
Console installation
• 20MB free disk space on Linux hosts required for server, VMware Management
Interface, VmPerl API and VMware Virtual Machine Console installation
• At least 1GB free disk space recommended for each guest operating system and
the application software used with it; using a default setup, the actual disk space
needs are approximately the same as those for installing and running the guest
operating system and applications on a physical computer
• IDE or SCSI hard drives, CD-ROM and DVD-ROM drives supported
• Guest operating systems can reside in virtual disk files or on physical (raw) disk
partitions
Local Area Networking
• Any Ethernet controller that the host operating system supports
• Non-Ethernet networks are supported using built-in network address translation
(NAT) or using a combination of host-only networking plus routing software on
the host operating system
• A static IP address for your host machine (recommended)