Thank you all for your suggestions. They have been helpful. It was great to know that this is possible, and I passed on your advice.<div><br></div><div>My friend has initially decided to try out the free (beer) version of Vmware's ESXi server, because it looks easier to setup for a primarily windows user, and apparently has the functionality required. I did pass on your suggestions to try the open source equivalents, but he is familiar with VMware and not a big fan of the command line. Im not keen to push the issue, because I dont want to leave a bad taste for Ubuntu in the future if it dosent work out.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I myself have tried VirtualBox and Xen with varying degrees of success. They were both ok to setup for a Linux guest but much harder to configure for a windows guest. Things have probably changed in the last 12 months though, and Ill give it another go when I get some new hardware.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks again,</div><div><br></div><div>Mike</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:27 PM, daniel sobey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dns_server@yahoo.com">dns_server@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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From: mike james <<a href="mailto:mikej01@gmail.com">mikej01@gmail.com</a>><br>
Subject: Vmware on 64bit ubuntu<br>
To: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br>
Received: Monday, 16 March, 2009, 10:23 AM<br>
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Hi all,<br>
Can anyone tell me if its possible to run Vmware workstation on 64 bit Ubuntu using more than 4 gig of RAM?<br>
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.<br>
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</div>Mike<br>
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Yes you can run a 64 bit os on a 64 bit vmware, you can run a 32 bit os on a 64 bit vmware, you can run 64 bit os on a 32 bit os. I believe quemu, virtualbox, kvm, xen can also do this.<br>
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you can run a "hugemem" kernel to allow a 32 bit os to be able to use more than 4gb.<br>
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If you are going to build a test environment vmware is a reasonable option but there is competition. xen is backed by most of the big linux companies and is open source.<br>
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