davisr651
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‎12-30-2021 04:24 PM

Workstation Pro 16 download

just purchased Workstation Pro 16  & installed it on my Windows 10 64 bit system.  Where do i look to see if the version of workstation i downloaded is 64 bit or 32 bit? 

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bluefirestorm
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‎12-30-2021 05:19 PM

Workstation Pro has stopped support of 32-bit Windows as a host OS since version 11.

The Workstation UI (vmware.exe) is still 32-bit though but the process (vmware-vmx.exe) that actually runs VMs is 64-bit.

There are lots of other VMware-related processes. The packaging/destination folder does not follow the standard that Program Files (x86) contains only 32-bit executables. You can see whether the process is 64-bit or 32-bit from Task Manager Details tab with the Architecture column (x64 or x86).

 

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