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Old 4th July 2008
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Well, I couldn't find much information either, at least on official page presenting VMware Workstation. So I Googled a bit and found the reference link mentioning it. After Googling more I found these:

http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2007/03...isor_that.html

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Now what Parallels probably means is that their virtual machine monitor takes advantage of hardware assist (Intel VT and AMD-V) on newer processors. VMware Workstation also takes advantage of Intel VT for 64-bit guests, but for 32-bit guests and AMD CPUs, we have a tuned binary translation (BT) monitor. In fact we've shown that for normal workloads, our BT monitor is as fast or faster than VT, and therefore we're more interested in the next generation of these technologies.
http://pubs.vmware.com/ws6_ace2/wwhe...tml/wwhelp.htm

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Improved 64-Bit Guest Support

In addition to other 64-bit guest operating systems supported on Intel and AMD systems, 64-bit guest operating systems that run on Intel EM64T VT-capable processors are fully supported.
In PC Hardware part they say CPU compatible for 64-bit guests could be:
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Intel Pentium 4 and Core 2 processors with EM64T and Intel Virtualization Technology
Also: http://communities.vmware.com/message/766047#766047

So you're right, they're not so vocal in saying that "the product" suports it, don't know why either.
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