Vmware on 64bit ubuntu

[Dave Hall]

On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 10:23 +1030, mike james wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> Can anyone tell me if its possible to run Vmware workstation on 64 bit
> Ubuntu using more than 4 gig of RAM?
> 
> 
> Sorry for the vagueness of the question, but Im doing some research
> for a friend who is currently a windows user but is considering 64
> Ubuntu so that he can get better RAM usage to setup a virtual test
> environment.

I would recommend virtualbox instead.  It is free software (as in
speech) and works well.  It works with more than 4G of RAM too.  As for
vmware workstation. I don't have any real vmware experience, I run
virtualbox on the desktop and KVM in server environments - and most of
my VMs run on servers.

Cheers

Dave