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Table 3-3. Guest Operating Systems (Continued)
Operating System Type Operating System Edition
Sun 64-bit Solaris x86 64-bit
Microsoft MS-DOS MS-DOS
Processor Support for 64-Bit Guest Operating Systems
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
Player
supports virtual machines with 64-bit guest operating systems, running on host machines with
the following processors:
n
Revision D or later of AMD Athlon 64, Opteron, Turion 64, and Sempron
n
Intel Pentium 4 and Core 2 processors with EM64T and Intel Virtualization Technology
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. Download the 64-bit processor check utility from the downloads area of the VMware Web site.
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