In addition to the recent update on VMware's Workstation product, the company also updated its VMware Player as well.  Like their Workstation update, the VMware Player update is only a minor release, a dot revision, upgrading it to build 29634 and version 1.0.2. 

Like Workstation, Player has been upgraded to add support for a number of new host operating systems:

• Windows Server 2003 R2, 32-bit, 64-bit
• Mandriva Linux 2006, 32-bit, 64-bit
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, 32-bit, 64-bit
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP3, 32-bit, 64-bit
• SUSE Linux 10.1, 32-bit, 64-bit
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 update 7, 32-bit, 64-bit
• Experimental support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 Update 8, 32-bit, 64-bit
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 Update 3, 32-bit, 64-bit
• Experimental support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 Update 4, 32-bit, 64-bit
• Ubuntu Linux 6.06, 32-bit, 64-bit
• Ubuntu Linux 5.10, 32-bit, 64-bit
• Ubuntu Linux 5.04, 32-bit, 64-bit

Additionally, it adds support for the following guest operating systems:

• Windows Server 2003 R2, 32-bit, 64-bit
• Mandriva Linux 2006, 32-bit, 64-bit
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, 32-bit, 64-bit
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP3, 32-bit, 64-bit
• SUSE Linux 10.1, 32-bit, 64-bit
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 update 7, 32-bit, 64-bit
• Experimental support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 Update 8, 32-bit, 64-bit
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 Update 3, 32-bit, 64-bit
• Experimental support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 Update 4, 32-bit, 64-bit
• Novell Netware 6.5 SP3, 32-bit
• Experimental support for FreeBSD 6.1, 32-bit, 64-bit
• Experimental support for FreeBSD 6.0, 32-bit, 64-bit
• Solaris x86 10, 10 Update 1, 32-bit, 64-bit
• Ubuntu Linux 6.06, 32-bit, 64-bit
• Ubuntu Linux 5.10, 32-bit, 64-bit
• Ubuntu Linux 5.04, 32-bit, 64-bit

Download the latest version of VMware Player, here.