How to reconfigure eclipse to use a 64 bit JVM

Question

I\'m using eclipse on what I thought were all 64 bit runtime environments. The current settings Java>installed JREs and Execution Environment all point to jdk1.6.0_30 which

Answer 1

Add the -vm tag to eclipse.ini or the shortcut to explicitly specify a JRE. Note that the default for Windows XP is to use the CRAPPY JRE that comes with Windows.

-vm "%JAVA_HOME%/bin/javaw.exe"