EMC has released a new version of VMWare Player Beta 2 recently with support for the following new features:

-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
-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

Download VMWare Player 2 here after filling out a survey