Can I run a 64-bit VMWare image on a 32-bit machine?

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Published on 2008-09-11T09:26:25Z Indexed on 2010/03/08 5:51 UTC
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Can I run a 64-bit VMWare image on a 32-bit machine?

I've Googled this but there doesn't seem to be a conclusive answer.

I know that it would have to be completely emulated and would run like a dog - but slow performance isn't necessarily an issue as I'm just interested in testing some of my background services code on 64-bit platforms.

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