VMware is happy to announce that Player 2.0 Release Candidate is now available.

Included are several new and exciting features, such as:

* Experimental support for 2-way Virtual SMP assigns more than a single CPU to a virtual machine.
* Share data seamlessly between the virtual machine and host computer.
* Windows Vista support as a host and guest OS.
* Support for USB 2.0 devices allow you to use high speed performance peripherals within your virtual machine like MP3 Players.
* Appliance view allows you to start a virtual appliance and review brief description and other relevant information provided by the appliance author.
* New Home Page allows you to open existing virtual appliances or browse any of the 425 virtual appliances in the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace.
* Broad host and guest OS support includes over 60 supported 32- and 64-bit guest OSs.

Full review when my download finishes….