


It's also a useful way to isolate untrusted applications from your live operating system. So is upcoming preview releases of Microsoft Windows before taking the plunge into the Microsoft abyss. Operating systems supported by VMware Workstation Player are numerous and for example, running a copy of Windows XP for outdated and/or never updated software is a common case.

With the huge rise in technology allowing you to run virtual systems, the number of different operating systems that can be run with programs like VMware Workstation Player has exploded. VMware Workstation Player is a free (or more precisely freemium) virtualization application which allows you to run virtual machines on your Windows system. Virtualization software package for PCs running Windows or Linux.
