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CAN I USE VMWARE SERVER ON MY WINDOWS 7 64BIT

I am setting up a new domain at home and I want to use VMWare Server on one of my workstations that will be attached to the domain, I need to use Win 7 64Bit in order to use my 8GB of RAM on the workstation. Is VMWare Server compatiable with the 64bit version of Win 7? My server has Server Ent. Ed. 2008. I also have a DNS-323 NAS, WD TB Live (soon to be D-Link Boxee), laptop, printer and another XP desktop?

Thanks in advance.

Mike Thomas

I ran it on my W7x64 but hated the new web front end version. :/

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goraek

Yes, you can install VMWare Server on any running x64 OS.

p90md

VMWARE Server is compatible with many x64 bit operating systems including Windows 7.

also supports x64 bit linux Distros.

•Support for SUSE Linux 10.1 as host and guest operating systems
•Support for 32-bit Ubuntu 6.x as host and guest operating systems
•Support for 32-bit Sun Solaris 10.x as guest operating systems
•Support for 32-bit and 64-bit FreeBSD 6.0 as guest operating systems
•Experimental support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 Update 8 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 Update 4
•Experimental support for 64-bit Ubuntu 6.x as host and guest operating systems
•Experimental support for 64-bit Sun Solaris 10.x as guest operating systems

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Glen Knight

I use VMWare server on my Windows 7 64bit to do all my SBS testing.

The official documentation says it's not supported, I.e. If you have problems with it yet won't help.

coolsport00

As I mentioned above, it's not officially supported (see pg. 25 here: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmserver2.pdf). So, it's not a reflection of having 64-bit or not, it's a reflection of the OS type. Again, others have installed it and it has worked, and for others it didn't. So, it's a choice for you to do so at your own risk.

Regards,
~coolsport00

Praveen_Venkat

Yes You can Install VMWARE but check that the memory it takes should be less. Otherwise your system becomes slow

Newbie0000

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WOW, that was fast. I am not sure that I need server, basically I want to create other desktops with XP, Win7 etc using VMWare, and log into my domain and not worry about them crashing so I don't have to keep rebuilding my desktop. What version should I use for that?

Also, what version should I use on my Server 2008 to creat other servers?

Thanks again for the quick response.

coolsport00

You can use VMware Workstation 7.1, but it costs $189US. VMware Player is free and that should install on pretty much anything. (there is no User's Guide for Player per sè...VMware suggests referencing the Workstation Guide here: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/ws71_manual.pdf or the HCL for compatibility: http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php).

If you have a server with a Windows Server OS (your 2K8 box?), then VMware Server will indeed work.

Regards,
~coolsport00

Glen Knight

I have experienced no problems at all running VMWare server on my Windows 7 machine and I perform migrations and all sorts with it.

As for Server 2008 use Hyper-V, it's part of Windows and it supports 64bit virtual machines.

You can just add it as a role in server manager.