VMware Workstation is a useful virtual machine software specifically designed for x86 and x86-64 computer systems. It allows you to run multiple operating systems on the same computer.
Any person who is interested in optimizing their personal computer or testing several operating systems can get ahold of this software and use it to their own benefit.
It is ideal for software developers, testers, and general IT professionals, as well as a great way to introduce virtual infrastructure to a company and increase productivity.
The installation process is very simple, and it requires you to either choose typical or custom (recommended for advanced users).
With VMware you can basically perform actions between virtual machines, such as cut, copy and paste text, images or email attachments (especially useful in Unity mode), while the drag and drop feature is available to move files, text or images between virtual machines (e.g. file managers, zip file managers).
Other features include taking a snapshot to maintain virtual machine states, changing workstation preference settings, installing and updating various tools, configuring virtual machine option/hardware settings, using a virtual network editor, using removable devices and printers, setting up shared folders, and running the support script.
You can bridge to existing host network adapters, CDs or DVDs, hard disk drives and USB devices. Plus, you can test live CDs without first recording them on discs or restarting the computer system.
Vmware Workstation is a fast and practical tool that you should experiment with in case you want to deal with several computers. Workload significantly decreases, thanks to this innovative software.

Limitations:
· A 30-day serial number is required to use the software. After installation, on the user interface go to Help > Enter Serial Number and click on "Get Serial Number"
· 30-day trial

What's New in This Release:
The following issues are resolved in this release of VMware Workstation:
· The ACLs on the PID files needed improvement. VMware thanks Inode0 for bringing this to our attention.
· Releasing input from the guest to the host, for example, moving the cursor from the virtual machine window to the host screen, failed with an unrecoverable error.
· Copying and pasting from a guest to an Ubuntu 11.10 host failed.
· Shared folders did not work in Fedora 16 and OpenSuse 12.1 guests.
· In Ubuntu 11.10 hosts, key repeat was disabled after ungrabbing or quitting VMware Workstation.
· On a Windows host, a virtual machine configured to use a physical disk or partition failed to power on if the host had a volume backed by more than one physical disk, for example, a RAID system.
· On a machine with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 SP1, vix-perl installation failed with dynamic link errors.