VMware Player

VMware Player

VMware is currently my favorite virtual machine tool because it does most of what I need. Having a free Player is pretty cool. Even though you cannot create a new virtual machine you can play one that someone else creates. That opens up a few possibilities. And it also has a few gotchas like — how do you deal with licenced software that’s installed on those virtual machines???

But with Microsoft moving strong into this market I suppose VMware couldn’t just sit back. The OpenSource Xen could shake up this whole market.

The commercial software vendors who depend on license revenue must be having nightmares. At least the ones who can see this coming.