Thanks for everyone’s replies on this subject. Your comments have clarified things and led to a solution.
I have downloaded the 104MB VMware-player-3.1.0-261024.exe product and run it through a sanity test. It recognised my previous VMs created with VMWare Server 2 and it opens them; and Windows 7, Windows 2003 Server Standard and Windows XP virtual machines seem to run without any issues. So this is probably the miracle cure I’ve been looking for. I haven’t even installed any of the VM driver tools and it all seems to work. The mouse moves smoothly and I’ve seen no freezes in any VMs (including Windows 7). I still wonder about the relationship between Server, Player and Workstation (and the rest of them). I think VMWare should clarify what all of their products do without the need to read reams of web pages. I’m guessing that Player has low functionality, but for the simple purpose of running parallel environments it’s fine for me. It doesn’t seem to have any “remote console”, but that doesn’t bother me either. Cheers, Greg
