VMware Player 2.0.4-93057

Publisher's Description:

VMware Player is free software that enables PC users to easily run any virtual machine on a Windows or Linux PC. VMware Player runs virtual machines created by VMware Workstation, GSX Server or ESX Server and also supports Microsoft virtual machines and Symantec LiveState Recovery disk formats.

VMware Player is ideal for safely evaluating pre-built application environments, beta software, or other software distributed in virtual machines. With VMware Player, anyone can easily experience the benefits of preconfigured products rapidly without any installation or configuration hassles.

Latest Changes:

• On Windows hosts, if VMCI is enabled, a guest can execute arbitrary code in the context of the vmx process on the host
• A security vulnerability related to the host-guest file system (HGFS) could cause a buffer overflow

Latest User Reviews:

Reviewer:	spiked	Jun 1, 2008
Version:	2.0.4-93057
The ISO images included now are simply the VMTools (similar to "guest additions" in the terminology of competing products) for all supported operating systems. It's really about time VMware started providing these for Player; they were already freely available in the Server product. Their absence from Player was meant to reflect the fact that Player is not intended for creating VMs, just running them. Of course, everyone has figured out how to create them without buying Workstation or installing Server, and their slow VMs without VMTools were making Player look bad.
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Reviewer:	rseiler	May 9, 2007
Version:	2.0.0.45731
In case anyone's wondering why this is so incredibly large compared to prior versions, it's because they include a couple .ISO images with it.
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Reviewer:	mindarch	Sep 1, 2006
Version:	1.0.2 Build 29634
I've only used it a little, but like the idea. As a web application developer, this makes a lot of sense. I can have several different OS's installed on my machine and as I develop a site or some code for an online app, I can check it out with different versions of the same browser and also different browsers for different systems. I've started using this for just this reason. If you develop, this is a great reason to use this. The biggest problem I had was some of the pre-made packs had wrong user/pass or ran poorly etc. If you have the full VMWare, you can create your own OS for the player for your company. I have a small review (http://www.mindarch.com/b2/?p=3) if anyone is interested.
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Reviewer:	roj	Aug 11, 2006
Version:	1.0.2 Build 29634
I hope they've fixed that damnable inexcusable buffer bug that plagues copy and paste operation both indside a VM and on the host that Player is installed on. It's annoying as hell. FOUR stars.
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Reviewer:	mmebane	Dec 21, 2005
Version:	1.0.1 Build 19317
"supports SVGA directly" as in "emulates a common video card and doesn't require special drivers for accelerated video". Yeah, that's really my only gripe about VMware. Other than that, VMware Workstation and this free Player are quite nice.
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