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Using VMware Player
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Supported Guest Operating Systems
The operating systems listed here have been tested in VMware Player virtual machines and are
officially supported. For notes on installing the most common guest operating systems, and the
most recent list of supported guest operating systems, see the VMware Guest Operating System
Installation Guide, available from the VMware web site at http://pubs.vmware.com/guestnotes/.
Operating systems that are not listed are not supported for use in a VMware Player virtual
machine.
Support for 64-Bit Guest Operating Systems
VMware Player supports virtual machines with 64-bit guest operating systems, running on host
machines with the following processors:
• AMD™ Athlon™ 64, revision D or later
• AMD Opteron™, revision E or later
• AMD Turion™ 64, revision E or later
• AMD Sempron™, 64-bit-capable revision D or later (experimental support)
• Intel® EM64T VT-capable processors (experimental support)
VMware Player supports virtual machines with 64-bit guest operating systems only on host
machines that have one of the supported 64-bit processors. When you power on a virtual
machine with a 64-bit guest operating system, VMware Player performs an internal check: if the
host CPU is not a supported 64-bit processor, you cannot power on the virtual machine. VMware
also provides a standalone utility that you can use without VMware Player to perform the same
check and determine whether your CPU is supported for VMware Player virtual machines with
64-bit guest operating systems. You can download the 64-bit processor check utility from the
VMware web site at www.vmware.com/download.