Free VMware Player 3.0 RC Adds Ability To Create VMs
October 4th, 2009 | 
Author: A public a release candidate of VMware Player 3.0 is now available to the public. The free Player finally has the ability to create new virtual machines (VMs), thus making it a viable alternative to other free, host based hypervisors such as VirtualBox and Microsoft’s Virtual PC. Not packing quite as many features as the licensed VMware Workstation, Player version 3.0 still offers a good enough platform for basic desktop testing and development.
More information and a download link is available at VMware Communities: VMware Player Release Candidate.
The Feature Highlights listed on the VMware Player 3.0 RC Page:
- The ability to create Virtual Machines
- Aero support for Windows 7 and Windows Vista guests!!!
- OpenGL support for Windows guests (give Google Earth a try!)
- New User Interface including a Virtual Machine Library
- Windows 7 support (as a Host and Guest OS)
- Automatically download and install the latest VMware Tools package
- Multiple Monitor Support
- Print from your VM without installing printer drivers. Virtual Printing courtesy of our friends at ThinPrint.
- ALSA Sound support on Linux hosts enables multiple VMs to play “music” concurrently
- VIX API support will let our coding fans write applications that can interact with their VMs
I have not had the opportunity to try the new Player yet, but I plan on downloading it soon and will probably post some screen shots when I get it installed.
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