It's fine to create the VM using Workstation running directly on the host OS and collect the information that way. I'm mostly just looking for the various bits of of host CPU information that are collected in the log, and Workstation should collect much the same information as ESXi would. (In theory you could probably run ESXi inside Workstation, but please don't do that for this test... just create the blank VM using Workstation running on your host. It'll be easier, and the information collected will be much more useful) Thanks!
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Darius