VMware Player
What is VMware Player?
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.
How can I use VMware Player?
| Run | VMware Player can be used by anyone to run virtual machines on a Windows or Linux PC. VMware Player makes it quick and easy to take advantage of the security, flexibility, and portability of virtual machines. |
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| Share | VMware Player can be used by anyone to run a virtual machine shared by a colleague or friend. For example, customer support and development teams can share a customer scenario encapsulated within a virtual machine. |
| Evaluate | 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. Pre-built applications from leading software vendors are available from the VMware VMTN Virtual Machine Center |
Want to run a virtual machine now?
Download virtual machines from IBM Software, Oracle, BEA, MySQL, Red Hat, Novell, and others, from the VMware VMTN Virtual Machine Center.
What are you waiting for? Get VMware Player Beta now!
Download VMware Player Beta
VMware Player can be used by anyone to run virtual machines on a Windows or Linux PC. VMware Player makes it quick and easy to take advantage of the security, flexibility, and portability of virtual machines.
Latest Beta Version: 1.0 | 10/19/05 | Build 16981 for Windows operating systems (.exe)md5sum: 69474caa0802be99379973605a93b952 for Linux systems (.rpm)md5sum: 2027d6fa8956b73b9387e9313417ab49 for Linux systems (.tar)md5sum: cf0f07a05081272c073e2ffd4972b05f |