VMware today announced support for 64-bit extended x86 platforms, including AMD64 and the Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology (Intel EM64T). VMware software will support systems with terabytes of physical and virtual memory, enabling the virtualization of the next-generation memory-intensive applications such as data-mining and managing large databases.
VMware Announces Support for 64-Bit Computing
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Very very old news …
Yeah, But at least it’s good news! This is one more App that I needed before I can uninstall Windows of my AMD64 and make the move to Linux without looking back! To bad it will be another 4-6 months before 64bit is really ready for the masses.
I am jealous. I wish there was a VM ware for Power PC chips. I have Virtual PC, but I wan’t to be able to run Linux (Yellow dog) on my mac.
If you are running PPC OS within a PPC OS, try Mac-On-Linux
Isn’t PPC supposed to be at least slighly easier to virtualize than x86?
Why don’t they try to officially support FreeBSD as a host OS. It can’t be that hard, since it can run under linux emulation.
To quote Jeremy Sugarman, external employee number 1 at VMware (and author of one of their 2 papers): “PPC virtualization is far simpler than virtualizing the x86, which is why there is no money in it.” The problem with virtualizing the x86 is that it is not virtualizable in the conventional sense. Virtualizable means that any privileged instruction will trap if run at a non-privileged level. This is not true for the x86, where some of them will simply return wrong values or otherwise misbehave in complicated ways. In order to emulate it, they have to perform dynamic binary rewriting on these instructions, so that they become virtualizable.
Why not set your Mac to dual-boot? I have my iMac dual-booting between Yellowdog and OSX 10.3. As someone else mentioned, Yellowdog also comes with Mac-on-Linux allowing you to run MacOS (Classic or OSX) within Linux.
Because as we all know, Netcraft has confirmed that BSD is dying . . .
In all seriousness, it probably has a lot to do with the fact that the demand for BSD is not high enough for VMWare to consider it. BSD People should get together and mail VMWare about getting a port.