Wednesday, October 7, 2009

VMware Player can now create virtual machines!

And finally, and as a result of the high-profile cat-and-mouse game between VMware and SUN Virtual Box it’s now possible to create VMs in a Beta Version.

Feature Highlights:

  • 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

So if you're willing to roll your sleeves up, read on for download and installation instructions: http://communities.vmware.com/community/beta/player

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