i'd install vmware workstation 8.0/8.0.1 to my win7 prof 64 bits , when i assign more than 8GB memory to my VM, it's show "32bits host OS will be unable to power on VM with more than 8GB of RAM" But my host OS is 64 bits. Why?

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i'd install vmware workstation 8.0/8.0.1 to my win7 prof 64 bits , when i assign more than 8GB memory to my VM, it's show "32bits host OS will be unable to power on VM with more than 8GB of RAM" But my host OS is 64 bits. Why?