Apple - Is there a free VMWare Player for Mac?

Already asked at superuser (Credits to the OP). I post the answer here again - slightly modified:

There is no version of VMware Player for OS X. Instead, VMware sells a Mac version of their product called VMware Fusion. You may use it as trial version 30 days for free

If you don't want to purchase VMware Fusion, you can:

• Use Boot Camp to some other OS. The OS itself should run fine.
• Use Boot Camp and run vmplayer from the other OS. (Untested since I do not have a OS/X host)
• Use VirtualBox. VirtualBox can use virtual hard disks in VMware's VMDK format (like so).

There is also Parallels Desktop for Mac. Years ago I just received a license as a developer, and until now I did not find in any other hypervisor such an integration

From September 2020 there is free VMWare Fusion Player 12 for macOS (VMware Fusion Blog: Fusion 12: Now Available!):

Fusion Player offers a Personal Use License, available for free with a valid MyVMware account. Home users, Open Source contributors, students, and anyone else can use Fusion Player Free for Non-Commercial activity.

You can register and download it from this VMWare page