A virtual machine is a computer defined in software. It's like running a PC on your PC.
This free desktop virtualization software application makes it easy
to operate any virtual machine created by VMware Workstation, VMware
Fusion, VMware Server or VMware ESX, as well as Microsoft Virtual
Server virtual machines or Microsoft Virtual PC virtual machines.
Run multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single PC
Experience the benefits of preconfigured products without any installation or configuration hassles
Share data between host computer and virtual machine
Run 32- and 64-bit virtual machines
Leverage 2-way Virtual SMP
Use 3rd-party virtual machines and images
Share data between host computer and virtual machine
Broad host and guest operating system support
Support for USB 2.0 devices
Get appliance info at start-up
Gain easy access to virtual machines via intuitive home page interface
VMware provides new support for the following guest operating system on Player 2.5.3:
* Ubuntu 9.04 is fully supported.
Following are the resolved issues in Player 2.5.3:
Security Fixes
*
New: Third party library libpng updated to 1.2.35. Several flaws were
discovered in the way the third-party libpng library handled
uninitialized pointers. An attacker could create a PNG image file in
such a way, that when loaded by an application linked to libpng, it
could cause the application to crash or execute arbitrary code at the
privilege level of the user running the application. The Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures project Common Vulnerabilities and
Exposures (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2009-0040 to this
issue.
Miscellaneous
* Sometimes the VMwareUser.exe
process on a Windows guest uses 100 percent of the CPU after a drag and
drop operation because the operation has not been terminated properly. *
The Etoken encryption USB device from Alladin Systems is not recognized
in the preboot environment for a Windows XP virtual machine. * Player virtual machines that were converted from ESX virtual machines might fail if the display is set to 8-bit color. *
After installing and configuring VMware Tools on Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 3, the sound does not work after restarting the guest. * On a Windows XP Service Pack 2 guest, the Hardware Wizard stops responding when installing Logitech QuickCAm Pro 9000. * Add enhanced SVGA and mouse drivers to support X.Org server version 1.6. * A WLK DiskStress test fails with data corruption error on LSI Logic virtual device. *
Moving files between shared folders or mapped drives in Windows
gueststhat point to the same directory on the host, cause the files to
disappear. * Pressing any keys while grabbing (for example, Ctrl+g) or ungrabbing become stuck on Ubuntu 9.04 host. *
Player has been updated to power on the latest Microsoft Virtual PC
files (.vhd). VMware recommends that you create a copy or linked clone
of the image. If you do not create a copy, you cannot run the original
virtual machine in VPC after running it in Player, because the virtual
hardware layer has been modified. * Performance is slow when opening a Shared Folder for the first time in a Player Windows guest. * Drag and drop stops working when color depth is set to 16-bit on a Player guest. *
When moving a virtual machine from a later version of Player to a 2.5.x
version of Player, the taskbar icon indicates that a more current
version of VMware Tools is available and that VMware Tools should be
updated. * NAT networking does not work on the latest Windows operating systems. * After uninstalling VMware Tools from an Ubuntu 8.10 guest, restart the guest to re-establish the netwok connection. *
Default suspend and resume scripts do not activate or deactivate the
network interfaces correctly in a 32-bit Ubuntu 9.04 guests. Download
