VMware, Inc. is a provider of virtualization software.The company was founded in 1998 and is based in Palo Alto, California.The Company is majority owned by EMC Corporation .VMware's desktop software runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.VMware's enterprise software, VMware ESX Server, runs directly on server hardware without requiring an additional underlying operating system.Founded in 1998 , this enterprise today produces best virtualisation solution for desktops and servers.VMware software provides a completely virtualized set of hardware to the guest operating system.VMware software virtualizes the hardware for a video adapter, a network adapter, and hard disk adapters.The host provides pass-through drivers for guest USB, serial, and parallel devices.
In this way, VMware virtual machines become highly portable between computers, because every host looks nearly identical to the guest.
In practice, a system administrator can pause operations on a virtual machine guest, move or copy that guest to another physical computer, and there resume execution exactly at the point of suspension.
Alternately, for enterprise servers, a feature called VMotion allows the migration of operational guest virtual machines between similar but separate hardware hosts sharing the same storage.
Each of these transitions is completely transparent to any users on the virtual machine at the time it is being migrated.VMware's products use the CPU to run code directly whenever possible .
When direct execution cannot operate, such as with kernel-level and real-mode code, VMware products re-write the code dynamically, a process VMware calls "binary translation" or BT. The translated code gets stored in spare memory, typically at the end of the address space, which segmentation mechanisms can protect and make invisible. For these reasons, VMware operates dramatically faster than emulators, running at more than 80% of the speed that the virtual guest operating-system would run directly on the same hardware.

Basically for desktop theere are 5 products of VMware :
*VMware Fusion
*VMware Workstation
*VMware View
*VMware Player
*VMware ACE
You can visit here for product details,registration and downloads : http://www.vmware.com/support/

for Vmware player download fow 32 bit windows, refer this link : http://downloads.vmware.com/tryvmware/?p=player&lp=default
If you use other software , you may refer this link to get your desired dwonload :
http://downloads.vmware.com/d/details/player_3_0/ZGp0YmQlJSpiZGVkZA==#version_history

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