BackTrack 5 R3 has released a single VMware Image (Gnome, 32 bit). So virtual machine will not be able to run 64-bit code.
Also fallow the lonk ..
http://www.backtrack-linux.org/backtrack/backtrack-5-r3-released/
Well, did you do as the informational message suggested? Namely... "For more details, see http://vmware.com/info?id=152"
