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I was under the impression that VMs couldn't be created with Player either

Might I introduce you to http://www.easyvmx.com/ ? Online creator of blank vms, complete to the spec you choose. Pretty nifty and fast, even if you do have access to regular vmware creation.

As a side note, you don't need to buy even a $288 computer to test it; you can get a free one here and here.

'You're missing the point. First, I believe this is meant to compete with VMWare Workstation, not VMWare server. And, therefore, it is giving vmware a run for their money if they just have equal features - beacause VirtualBox is free, VMWare isn't.'

I'm running 64-bit Linux under 32-bit XP using VMWare Player, with a VM created using EasyVMX:

http://www.easyvmx.com/

and VMWare tools extracted from Workstation:

http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Installing_VMware_Tools_with_VMware_Player.html

This is a free (but not Free) solution that does everything I need and (once it's set up) is as slick as Workstation in normal usage. But it'll be interesting to give VirtualBox a try now that this feature is available. Incidentally, the VMware VM can't address any more memory than the host OS, but I still find this setup useful for binary compatibility with my native 64-bit Linux installation.

VMware player and workstation now have experimental 3d acceleration support. I have a Windows XP player running Google Sketchup in accelerated mode currently. Works great.

http://www.easyvmx.com/blog/?q=vmware_with_3d_acceleration

I've seen reports that it can run many older DX8 type games. Of course wine runs most of those just fine so why bother with a VM.

The official name of the 64 bit product is Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.
That name is not listed on the iPhone page, don't expect it to be supported.

Of course...there is an easy answer around this. Download VMware Player (get the setup files over at http://www.easyvmx.com/) or the demo of VMware Workstation...install the 32-bit version of XP into the software & keep the image on the hard drive in case you need it.

--Look into Vmware. Seriously. If you have a modern computer with enough RAM (512MB+) you can run Server (free) to create/run VMs (Linux under Windows); or use Player (256MB-384MB+) to run existing VMs/appliances, etc. And their support forums are excellent.

--I'm a big vmware Workstation user (Linux hosts FTW) but that one's not free.

http://www.vmware.com/products/free_virtualization .html
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/index-r.html Appliance VMs (dozens)
http://www.vmware.com/community/index.jspa (Forums)
http://easyvmx.com/ ( Create VMs for Player )

--The only downside is that (currently) Player and Server can't be concurrently installed on the same OS partition; but I get around this by triple-booting XP (Player), 64-bit Ubuntu (Workstation+Player) and 32-bit Ubuntu (Server.)

My wife and I both use laptops which dual boot WindowsXP and Ubuntu. She has to run a windows application for her work and it doesn't work under wine so I got the free vmware player but got stuck because you need the commercial version to create a virtual disk.

Last time I needed that, I used easyvmx.com. Very easy to use.

http://www.easyvmx.com/ is your VMWare Player friend :)

I'm running Vmware player which is free (thanks Vmware) under Ubuntu 64 bits. I'm using http://www.easyvmx.com/ to built my VM configurations. Ubuntu is a very nice Linux distrib.

As guest I run Windows 2000 to test web based applications under IE. Windows 2000 is lighter than Windows Xp to run and fine for my needs. I have also run FreeBSD, WinXp, Minix and different Linux flavor VMs.

Vmware player installation is clean, easy but you need a compiler under Linux to link the network layer. Speed is good under my system AMD64 3200+ with 2GB RAM, 512 MB are dedicated for the guest.

Before I used Qemu with the Kqemu accelerator which was fast and open source. But when I upgraded my system to Ubuntu 64 bits I ran into compilation issues so Vmware player was the only good solution.