VMWare Player 3.0 RC … Impressive

Just after the news sent me from my friend Alberto, I started digging’ out to find the “Download Page” for the Public Beta
of VMWare Player 3.0 .

The great news was the possibility to CREATE NEW Virtual Machines instead of “Just Playing” them.

I’ve been always a fan of VMWare but it IS quite expensive for someone wants to use it “at Home” : finally I switched to Virtual PC from Microsoft.

Lastly, I’ve been almost obliged to install the latest Player (2.5.3) to run a VM on my Company’s Notebook: I was impressed on how the VM was running really smoothly

In the meanwhile, the 3.0 Release Candidate went out and … what a wonderful surprise: I can even CREATE VMs .

After the download and the installation, I started by creating a new Virtual Machine with WindowsXP SP3 (just for compatibility reason): on my home PC with a "simple”
Athlon64 3500+ and 2 Gig of RAM, it ran very very smoothly.

It seems the CPU was running JUST one O.S. instead of 2 (the host one is Windows 7 Ultimate RC).

Just before shutting everything down, I checked the Player Log : It WAS NOT using the Hardware Acceleration; it stated my CPU (or any other component?) were not
completely compliant .

I’m just investigating about it … and probably it is a bug will be fixed in the final release.

Finally, I’ll adopt it to create my own VMs for development (and fun) purposes .