Windows – Does VMware Workstation 7 have a 64bit installer

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I downloaded Workstation 7.0, build 203739 from vmware.com, which says it's for 32bit or 64bit operating systems.

When I installed it, it installed automatically to the Program Files(x86) folder of my Windows XPx64 system, and the task manager shows it as vmware.exe(32).

So, my questions is, does the VMware Workstation program come in 64 bit version?

Best Answer

There's only a single binary of VMware Workstation, which supports both 32 and 64-bit hosts (even though it gets installed in "Program Files (x86)" on Windows x64).

The vmware.exe process is just the front-end and it's always 32-bit, but the actual virtual machines (vmware-vmx.exe) are 64-bit on 64-bit hosts.

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What you can do is install the Microsoft USB Hub Driver on your Host. This is how you do it:

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You can always add %ProgramFiles(x86)% to the 32bit Windows platforms. You can use a simple command line to add it:

Set ProgramFiles(x86) = "C:\Program Files"

Then you have consistency across platforms.

Edit:

Since you told me what it is for, I would do something like this for your instructions:

1 - Change to the directory for the program. 

2 - open a command prompt 

3a - type "cd %programfiles(x86)%" 

3b - If  you receive the error "The system cannot find the path specified", 
     go to step 3c.  Otherwise go to 4. 

3c - type "cd %programfiles%" 

4 - Other stuff

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