The software was able to virtualize multiple operating systems Windows, the major Linux distributions and other less popular operating systems on a virtualized PCs with hard drives, optical disks, floppy disks, a variable amount of RAM (although constrained by the real memory the host PC), sound card, network card, video card and serial ports (including USB) and parallel.

1.0 – This is the first public release.

The program is available for 32 and 64-bit architecture of Windows and Linux operating systems. Currently, many operating systems team developing choose to provide their testers, as well as ISO images, virtual installations also ready to run within the VMware software. It is a component of the commercial software VMware Workstation, since it was released for free, has enabled many new users to approach virtualization technology as able to run any virtual machine image created earlier with the commercial versions of VMware products. VMware Player is a freeware virtualization (virtual machine) manufactured by VMware, whose first version was released in December 2005. The company’s flagship products are VMware ESX Server and VMware ESXi, no more software is to be installed on operating systems like Microsoft Windows or GNU Linux, but real operating systems can be installed directly on physical machines by which you can create and manage virtual machines to achieve real virtual server farm. Some of these are available on both Windows platform, Linux and Mac OS X.

Its products include marketing programs VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion and programs provided free VMware Server and VMware Player. is a public company subsidiary of EMC Corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California and development centers in Palo Alto, San Francisco, Cambridge, Massachusetts and Bangalore, India.

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