I am trying to load the 64 bit version of the workstation 9 on a windows 7 64 bit system.
I down loaded the bundle (VMware-workstation-full-9.0.0-812388.exe) that has both the 64 bit and the 32 bit. When I run the install, it puts it in
the C:\Programs(x86) folder which I am under the impression is for 32 bit applications.
I have two questions
1) How do I determine what version of workstation (64 or 32) i have loaded?
2) if it is the 32, how do a force the 64 bit installation ?
VMware Workstation is both 32-bit an 64-bit. On 64-bit Host's it uses a 64-bit vmware-vmx process with it the back-end and Virtual Machine itself however the front-end GUI is 32-bit.
VMware Workstation is both 32-bit an 64-bit. On 64-bit Host's it uses a 64-bit vmware-vmx process with it the back-end and Virtual Machine itself however the front-end GUI is 32-bit.
That is normal. The Workstation UI is a 32-bit executable, so that's why the installer defaults to the Program Files (x86) directory.
@ mdunn-vmware
This question comes up quite often - a few lines of explanation on the down load page would help a lot