For those who don't know, VMware Player is a product for opening pre-made Virtual machines. VMware the company behind VMware Player has a lot of very good free and licensed software for virtualisation, but all the software that created virtual machines had to be bought until two weeks ago when VMware released their third version of their Virtual Machine Player.
What is new in this version is that allows you to create new Virtual machines. Yes, VMware integrated this feature into a free product making this the best free VM software.
Microsoft's Virtual PC, and Sun's VirtualBox are free and good for the most part but VMware to me is the best product for this kind of job.
This version brings a lot of stability, great performance and 3D support, now you can run Windows 7 or Vista with Aero Glass and Linux with all the effects.
What it lacks is Snapshots, that is the ability to save the state of a virtual machines and brin them back to the stable state if something went wrong. But this is a small price to pay for what you get free and you can always create a full back-up of the system with Macrium Reflect, but about this I will talk in a later post.
In conclusion VMware player, exceded my aspectations, and I am glad they decided to integrate the creation of virtual machines in this version.
But I have only have one question, should they change the name to VMware Creator?
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