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We are going over system requirements for a server based application and the vendor claims that it will not support the app if it is installed on Windows Server 2003 64 bit edition running on a VM. Quote: &quot;The 64 bit versions of Windows cannot run Microsoft .NET in a VMware environment. Do not use 64 bit versions.&quot;<br />
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Does anyone know if there is any truth to this statement?<br />
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We are currently running the app this way and do not have problems, but we do not want to void our support contract. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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We are going over system requirements for a server based application and the vendor claims that it will not support the app if it is installed on Windows Server 2003 64 bit edition running on a VM. Quote: "The 64 bit versions of Windows cannot run Microsoft .NET in a VMware environment. Do not use 64 bit versions."

Does anyone know if there is any truth to this statement?

We are currently running the app this way and do not have problems, but we do not want to void our support contract. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Guest OS 64bit, .net problems?

We are going over system requirements for a server based application and the vendor claims that it will not support the app if it is installed on Windows Server 2003 64 bit edition running on a VM. Quote: &quot;The 64 bit versions of Windows cannot run Microsoft .NET in a VMware environment. Do not use 64 bit versions.&quot;

Does anyone know if there is any truth to this statement?

We are currently running the app this way and do not have problems, but we do not want to void our support contract. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

The .NET Framework is not specific to any one programming language; rather, it includes a library of functions that allows developers to rapidly build applications. Several supported languages include C#, VB.NET, C++ or ASP.NET.

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VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

VMware

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).