I try to keep the version of VMware player I use to run virtual machines up to date. However it's been a couple of months. Just got the most recent version, and as soon as I went to boot my Windows XP virtual machine, up pops a dialog to install VMware Tools! If you know what VMware Tools is (yes that's "is" rather than "are", it's a product) you know why this is exciting. If you don't you probably shouldn't read this as it will put you to sleep.
VMware Tools is like the option pack for VMware. Sure you can run without it, but you're jones-ing. Here's the best example. You're stuck with Windows default VGA video driver without Tools, meaning really low quality display properties and performance.
Up until recently, and I haven't been able to find an announcement on this on their website, you had to purchase at least VMware workstation to get it. The free VMware Player did not come with it. They must have finally seen that all these other free VM hosts (Microsoft Virtual PC, Virtual Box, etc.) were looking better than VMware because of it.
I had scoured the web trying to find a legal way to use VMware Tools with no luck. This is a total bonus, thank you VMware!
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