VMware Player 2 Beta Program

VMware has released the VMware Player 2 Beta.

"Welcome to VMware Player 2 Beta Program! We invite you to download the beta to try out several new and exciting features, such as:

• Experimental Support for 2-way Virtual SMP - Assign more than a single CPU to a virtual machine to experience better performance
• Share data seamlessly between the virtual machine and host computer - Leverage Shared Folders or simply drag and drop files between the virtual and physical machines to share data efficiently
• Support for Windows Vista - Use Windows Vista as host and guest operating system
• Support for USB 2.0 devices - Use peripherals that require high-speed performance in your VMs, such as MP3 Players and fast storage devices
• Appliance view - Start a virtual appliance in the appliance view to review brief description and other relevant information provided by the appliance author
• New Home Page - Leverage an intuitive home page interface that lets you open existing virtual machines or browse the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace to download any of the 425 virtual appliances. Virtual appliances are pre-built, pre-configured and ready-to-run enterprise software applications packaged along with an operating system within virtual machines
• Broad host and guest operating system support - Run any of the over 60 supported 32- and 64-bit guest operating systems including Vista, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, Ubuntu 6.10 and many more"

[via VMware Betas]

There is a dedicated forum to discuss this beta for registered users.
Only self-help and web-based support is offered for Beta users during the term of the Beta period is . No support will be provided by phone.

They also have other ongoing betas that can be discovered here.