VMWare
Scott (angrykeyboarder)
geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com
Wed Aug 22 20:24:24 UTC 2007
Bart Silverstrim spake thusly:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm looking at trying a beefier setup for configuring a VMWare-server
> ubuntu system. I am looking at using more than 4 gig of memory, which
> I'm assuming would mean the 64 bit version of Ubuntu.
I've not heard of any memory restriction with regard to 32-bit Ubuntu.
There's nothing preventing you from running it with 8GB of memory,
however you do get better performance with a 64-bit OS that has 4GB or more.
>
> I'm familiar with configuring VMWare installs on Ubuntu from the repos,
> so that's the method I was going to use to install it this time.
>
> I've never used the 64 bit version of Ubuntu, so what problems would I
> have to look out for?
The usual...
The Adobe flash and Sun Java browser plugins are only 32-bit. There are
workarounds for installing 32-bit Firefox so that you can use them,
There are some apps that are only packaged in 32-bit versions. So if you
were looking for something out of the ordinary (I'm speaking of packages
that aren't in the Ubuntu archives) you'd have to compile from source.
> Will VMWare work on the 64 bit version and use
> more than 4 gig of memory, or is VMWare on 64 bit ubuntu treated like a
> 32 bit application and will be limited in memory use?
Well there is a 64-bit Version of VMWare Server in the Canonical
Commercial archive (in fact it's the only 64-bit app in said
archive)[1]. I don't see why it won't use all of the memory you assign
to it.
[1]
http://archive.canonical.com/dists/feisty-commercial/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Scott
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