Virtual Machines for VMware Player without VMWare Workstation...

virtualization.info: VMX Builder for VMware Player

"Robert Petruska created a bunch of great Windows GUIs for many famous VMware utilities.

Ulli Hankeln reversed the VMware virtual hard disks (.vmdk) structure, creating a lot of incredible utilities. Among them there is a batch for producing new VMware virtual machines configuration files (.vmx) called vmx-builder.cmd.

Why should you need producing new .vmx files from scratch? Simple: to create new virtual machines with VMware Player without installing VMware Workstation trial. ..."

If you find this post interesting, you should also check out another of Alessandro Perilli post's, Guide to create .vmx files for VMware Player, which goes into more details and options for creating Virtual Machines for VM Player...