I have an Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB of RAM and a GF 7300GT video card. I use OpenSUSE 11 32bit, on which I have installed VM Ware Workstation for Linux. All drivers and stuff are out of the box, except for the nVidia drivers, the package being called NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.29. On that VM Ware Workstation, I have installed a full-blown Windows XP, installing the Windows drivers from the hardware manufacturer's CD.
Hopefully, this will answer your question. Nevertheless, there wasn't one application that did not run for me in VM Ware Workstation. I haven't tested that many games on it, though.