VMware Player is a program which allows you to run multiple virtual machines on your operating system and easily juggle them. For example, you can have Windows XP installed on top of your Windows 7.
The user interface of the application is standard. You can create a new virtual machine, which is added at the top of your library.
The first step requires you specify the source file. So, you can install from a disc or from a disc image file. Otherwise, you can opt to install the respective virtual machine later.
In addition, you can select the guest operating system, which can be Microsoft Windows, Linux, Novell NetWare, Sun Solaris or other, as well as select the version (e.g. Windows XP Professional).
Now you can give your new virtual machine a name and specify its output directory, as well as allocate its maximum disk size (in GB).
Furthermore, you can store the virtual disk as a single file or split it into multiple ones. The latter option simplifies the process of moving the virtual machine to another computer but it could reduce performance on very large disks.
Right before finishing the process, you can view the name, location, version, operating system, hard disk, memory, network adapter and other devices corresponded to your new virtual machine.
Moreover, you can customize its hardware when it comes to memory, processors, new CD or DVD, floppy, network adapter, USB controller, sound card, printer and display.
However, at the moment, the VMWare Tools for the current version have not been provided, which makes working with VMWare Player a pretty bumpy experience; so you'd better stick to version 4.0.1 of the player for now.

The program takes up a moderate amount of system resources and contains a well-drawn help file. We haven't come across any problems during our tests and strongly recommend VMware Player to all users.

What's New in This Release:
This release of VMware Player adds the following new features and support:
· Support for Ubuntu 12.10 as a host and guest has been added to Player 5.0.1
· Solaris 11 has been added to guest OS list.
The following issues are resolved in VMware Player 5.0.1:
· When powering on a virtual machine with Binary Translation on a SMEP-capable CPU, Player no longer causes the host to reset. If you run Windows 8 hosts on IvyBridge processors, VMware strongly recommends that you update your installation of Player.
· Several security vulnerabilities have been addressed, including updating third party libraries.
· For host systems with more than 4GB of memory, Player will use more of the available memory to run virtual machines.
· The ability to mount a .vmdk file as a drive by right-clicking the file in File Explorer has been restored.
· Occasionally, certain elements in the Windows 8 user interface were incorrectly displayed. This has been fixed.
· After disconnecting certain USB devices from a vir...