The team at VMware has created a number of different products that are available for free. At the time of writing this book, VMware Player is still available free of charge, but unfortunately only for home users. One of the biggest limitations in the past was the fact that you could not use VMware Player to build and create virtual machines. Thankfully, the latest versions allow you to create machines. The limitations of the current version are in the networking department; this is because you cannot create additional switches with the VMware Player tool. For our purposes of building virtual pentesting labs, this is something that we really need, and if you do decide to use it, then you can only use VMware Player for basic...