From Wubble:

Today, as part of our VMworld 2005 festivities, we announced our VMware Player. This is a freely downloadable tool that, as you might guess, plays virtual machines.

It's a free download, and there are a number of preconfigured VMs available for download.

This is a really good idea for software demos, as can be seen by some of the VMs that are available (eg IBM, Oracle etc). No longer do you need to sacrafice a machine (or a preconfigured VM) and spend a long time getting some demo software working. Now vendors can just redistribute the player and a preconfigured VM. Brilliant!

The Browser Application VM looks like a good idea, too.