Yes. VMWare player is, as almost any virtualizing software, free for non-commercial use. It virtualizes your PC. So you have a complete new PC in the player. But this PC is empty. What you need is a license for an operating system and install it in the virtualized environment. So for Windows, you have to pay money, but Linux is open source, so you can use it for free. I have a win7 64 bit computer with lots of RAM and have Mint 32 and 64, Debian 6, Windows 8, Windows Vista 32 and 64 as virtual machines. They are not running at the same time, oh no, but e.g. with the Vista machines I compile gimp for windows. I failed with linux...
So you can load the Artistix DVD, its based on linux, and create a new virtual machine, install it and run it. VMWare has a mode, called Unity, where the background of VMware disappears so it looks, like the running program was startet from your local computer. I don't use this mode.
Alternatively, you can use virtualisation software like "VirtualBox" or "VirtualPC" or whatever.
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