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:
· On a Windows 7 host, when you plug and unplug a headset several times, the audio card of the guest would not work. This has been fixed in Workstation 9.0.2.
· When installing VMware Tools in Linux virtual machines, the The default screen resolution options have been standardized to 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, or 1280x800 for the initial login. After login, resolution can be set to any value the user desires or Autofit can be used.
· Image copy/paste now correctly function with Solaris 10 and 11 guests.
· The list of available NICs in the Automatic Bridging Settings dialog window is now refreshed without restarting Player.
· A memory leak that impacted Windows hosts and guests has been fixed.
· When running in a Linux distribution using the GNOME 3 desktop environment, Desktop folders now open as expected.
VMware Tools no longer crashes on Windows 2008 Server Core x64 SP2 operating system, with the following error:
· VMware Tools unrecoverable error: (vthread-3)
· Exception 0xc0000005 (access viola...