VMware Workstation and Player

Support of Windows 10:
Run Windows 10 as a virtual machine
Run Windows 10 as a host operating system
Other new operating systems support:
Ubuntu 15.04
Fedora 22
CentOS 7.1
RHEL 7.1
Oracle Linux 7.1
VMware Project Photon
Advanced graphics:
DirectX 10
OpenGL 3.3
Performance improvements for suspending and resuming encrypted virtual machines
Support for 4K monitors with high resolution UI
Support for multiple monitors with different DPI settings
Echo cancellation for voice and video calls with Microsoft Lync and Skype
Added USB 3.0 support to Windows 7 virtual machines (with the latest Intel USB driver)
Improved standard installer
Respect left-handed mouse setting on Windows host
The following features have reached end of life in Workstation 12 Player and have been removed:
Unity mode on Linux guest and host operating systems

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Virtual machines fail to start on a host with an Intel Skylake processor:
A compatibility issue might prevent a virtual machine from starting on a host with an Intel Skylake processor when the Gather Debugging Information option in the virtual machine's advanced settings is set to Full. The error message displayed includes ASSERT vmcore/vmm/cpu/fpu.c:347.
This issue is resolved.

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Resolved issues:
Running graphic software with MSAA enabled causes VMware Workstation Player to crash:
In a Windows virtual machine, running graphic software, such as a Realtime Landscape Architect program, or a graphic game, such as Civilization 4, with Multisample anti-aliasing (MSAA) enabled causes VMware Workstation Player to crash. This issue is resolved.
DNS names are not resolved in a Windows virtual machine running on an Ubuntu 16.04 host:
When you select a Network Address Translation (NAT) network for a Windows virtual machine running on an Ubuntu 16.04 host, Domain Name System (DNS) names are not properly resolved. This issue is resolved.
Enabling port forwarding breaks NAT:
When you enable port forwarding, network address translation (NAT) breaks. This issue is resolved.
Attempting to format a USB flash drive in a Windows guest with a USB 3.0 controller fails with an error:
When you connect a flash drive to a guest operating system and try to format the drive using a built-in Windows utility, the flash drive fails with the error Windows was unable to complete the format. This issue is resolved.
When using an Android Debug Bridge (ADB) daemon in an Ubuntu or Debian guest, the VMware Workstation Player window becomes unresponsive over time:
Starting an ADB daemon in an Ubuntu or Debian guest operating system causes a memory leak, which in turn causes the VMware Workstation window to become less responsive over time. This issue is resolved.

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This update of VMware Workstation Pro exposes hardware support for branch target injection mitigation to VMware guests. This hardware is used by some guest operating systems to mitigate CVE-2018-5715 (also called by the name "Spectre").

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What's New

It makes improvements in following areas:

• Windows 10 2018 Spring Creators Update (Version 1803) as host and guest
• Ubuntu 18.04 support as host and guest

VMware Workstation Pro 14.1.2 also contains bug fixes and security updates.

Resolved Issues

• When you power on a virtual machine, Workstation Pro might take focus from other applications on the host
  When you launch VMware Workstation Pro, power on the virtual machine in the initially opened tab, and quickly switch to another application on the host, the virtual machine window might take focus from the other application, possibly interrupting your work in that application.
  
  This issue is resolved.
  
  
• Two USB devices might list the same device name in the Workstation Pro drop-down menu
  When you power on a virtual machine and select VM > Removable Devices, two USB devices with the same PID number but with different VID numbers might list the same device name.
  
  This issue is resolved.

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Released 12 March 2020

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November 20, 2020

• What's New:
• Support for new host/guest operating systems:?
• Windows 10 20H2
• Ubuntu 20.10
• Fedora 33
• RHEL 8.3
• Updated vctl kind to support KIND v0.9.0
• Includes docker-machine-driver-vmware

New in VMware Workstation Pro 16.0.0 Build 16894299 (September 15, 2020)

• What's New:
• Container and Kubernetes Support:
• Build/run/pull/push container images using the vctl CLI.
• Supports KIND kubernetes clusters running on top of Workstation Player.
• Note: Windows 10 1809 or higher is required
• New Guest Operating System Support:
• RHEL 8.2
• Debian 10.5
• Fedora 32
• CentOS 8.2
• SLE 15 SP2 GA
• FreeBSD 11.4
• ESXi 7.0
• Support for DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.1 in the Guest:
• Hardware Requirements:
• For Windows hosts, a native GPU that supports DirectX 11.0 is required.
• For Linux hosts, latest NVIDIA proprietary drivers are required.
• Software Requirements:
• Host Operating System (64-bit):
• Windows 8 or higher
• GNU/Linux with NVIDIA drivers that support OpenGL 4.5 and above
• Guest Operating System
• Windows 7 or higher
• GNU/Linux with vmwgfx
• Vulkan Render Support for Linux Workstation Player
• Workstation 16 Player enables 3D support for Intel GPUs on Linux hosts to deliver DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3.3 to VMs using Vulkan Renderer.
• Note: Linux host operating system with a recent Intel/Vulkan driver is needed, Mesa 20.1 or later is recommended.
• Sandboxed Graphics:
• Virtual machine security is enhanced by removing graphics render from vmx and running it as a separate sandbox process.
• USB 3.1 Controller Support
• The virtual machines virtual XHCI controller is changed from USB 3.0 to USB 3.1 to support 10 Gbps.
• Larger VM
• 32 virtual CPUs
• 128 GB virtual memory
• Note: Running virtual machines with 32 vCPUs requires that your host and guest operating systems both support 32 logical processors.
• 8 GB virtual graphics memory
• Dark Mode:
• Workstation 16 Player supports Dark Mode for optimized user experience.
• Note: Requires host operating systems to be Windows 10 1809 or higher
• vSphere 7.0 Support:
• In Workstation 16 you can perform the following:
• Connect to vSphere 7.0.
• Upload a local virtual machine to vSphere 7.0.
• Download a remote virtual machine running on vSphere 7.0 to the local desktop.
• Performance Improvements:
• Improved file transfer speeds (Drag and Drop, Copy and Paste)
• Improved virtual machine shutdown time.
• Improved virtual NVMe storage performance.
• Improved Accessibility Support:
• Accessibility improvements have been added so Fusion is compliant with WCAG 2.1 criteria.
• Product Support Notices:
• Removal of restricted virtual machines
• Restricted virtual machine has reached end of life and been removed from VMware Workstation 16 Player.
• Important Fixes:
• This release of VMware Workstation addresses the following issues:
• Workstation addresses multiple out-of-bounds read vulnerabilities in Cortado Thinprint component. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifiers CVE-2020-3986, CVE-2020-3987, and CVE-2020-3988 to these issues. For more information, see VMSA-2020-0020.
• Workstation addresses a denial of service vulnerability due to an out-of-bounds write issue in Cortado Thinprint component. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier CVE-2020-3989 to this issue. For more information, see VMSA-2020-0020.
• Workstation addresses an information disclosure vulnerability due to an integer overflow issue in Cortado Thinprint component. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier CVE-2020-3990 to this issue. For more information, see VMSA-2020-0020.
• Resolved Issues:
• After priority.ungrabbed = "low" is set in the virtual machine configuration file, the priority of vmware-vmx process shows as Normal, when checked on the Host Task manager
• This setting has always worked until Workstation Pro 15.5 was released, however with the 15.5.5 release the status of the process stays at Normal.
• This issue is now resolved.
• A Windows XP x64 virtual machine freezes during boot, when Workstation is running on Win10 host with Hyper-V Enabled
• MSFT has bugs in APIC virtualization that block WinXP SP2 boot process.
• This issue is now resolved.

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November 20, 2020

• What's New:
• Support for new host/guest operating systems:?
• Windows 10 20H2
• Ubuntu 20.10
• Fedora 33
• RHEL 8.3
• Updated vctl kind to support KIND v0.9.0

New in VMware Workstation Player 16.0.0 Build 16894299 (September 15, 2020)

• What's New:
• Container and Kubernetes Support:
• Build/run/pull/push container images using the vctl CLI.
• Supports KIND kubernetes clusters running on top of Workstation Player.
• Note: Windows 10 1809 or higher is required
• New Guest Operating System Support:
• RHEL 8.2
• Debian 10.5
• Fedora 32
• CentOS 8.2
• SLE 15 SP2 GA
• FreeBSD 11.4
• ESXi 7.0
• Support for DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.1 in the Guest:
• Hardware Requirements:
• For Windows hosts, a native GPU that supports DirectX 11.0 is required.
• For Linux hosts, latest NVIDIA proprietary drivers are required.
• Software Requirements:
• Host Operating System (64-bit):
• Windows 8 or higher
• GNU/Linux with NVIDIA drivers that support OpenGL 4.5 and above
• Guest Operating System
• Windows 7 or higher
• GNU/Linux with vmwgfx
• Vulkan Render Support for Linux Workstation Player
• Workstation 16 Player enables 3D support for Intel GPUs on Linux hosts to deliver DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3.3 to VMs using Vulkan Renderer.
• Note: Linux host operating system with a recent Intel/Vulkan driver is needed, Mesa 20.1 or later is recommended.
• Sandboxed Graphics:
• Virtual machine security is enhanced by removing graphics render from vmx and running it as a separate sandbox process.
• USB 3.1 Controller Support
• The virtual machines virtual XHCI controller is changed from USB 3.0 to USB 3.1 to support 10 Gbps.
• Larger VM
• 32 virtual CPUs
• 128 GB virtual memory
• Note: Running virtual machines with 32 vCPUs requires that your host and guest operating systems both support 32 logical processors.
• 8 GB virtual graphics memory
• Dark Mode:
• Workstation 16 Player supports Dark Mode for optimized user experience.
• Note: Requires host operating systems to be Windows 10 1809 or higher
• vSphere 7.0 Support:
• In Workstation 16 you can perform the following:
• Connect to vSphere 7.0.
• Upload a local virtual machine to vSphere 7.0.
• Download a remote virtual machine running on vSphere 7.0 to the local desktop.
• Performance Improvements:
• Improved file transfer speeds (Drag and Drop, Copy and Paste)
• Improved virtual machine shutdown time.
• Improved virtual NVMe storage performance.
• Improved Accessibility Support:
• Accessibility improvements have been added so Fusion is compliant with WCAG 2.1 criteria.
• Product Support Notices:
• Removal of restricted virtual machines
• Restricted virtual machine has reached end of life and been removed from VMware Workstation 16 Player.
• Important Fixes:
• This release of VMware Workstation addresses the following issues:
• Workstation addresses multiple out-of-bounds read vulnerabilities in Cortado Thinprint component. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifiers CVE-2020-3986, CVE-2020-3987, and CVE-2020-3988 to these issues. For more information, see VMSA-2020-0020.
• Workstation addresses a denial of service vulnerability due to an out-of-bounds write issue in Cortado Thinprint component. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier CVE-2020-3989 to this issue. For more information, see VMSA-2020-0020.
• Workstation addresses an information disclosure vulnerability due to an integer overflow issue in Cortado Thinprint component. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier CVE-2020-3990 to this issue. For more information, see VMSA-2020-0020.
• Resolved Issues:
• After priority.ungrabbed = "low" is set in the virtual machine configuration file, the priority of vmware-vmx process shows as Normal, when checked on the Host Task manager
• This setting has always worked until Workstation Pro 15.5 was released, however with the 15.5.5 release the status of the process stays at Normal.
• This issue is now resolved.
• A Windows XP x64 virtual machine freezes during boot, when Workstation is running on Win10 host with Hyper-V Enabled
• MSFT has bugs in APIC virtualization that block WinXP SP2 boot process.
• This issue is now resolved.

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May 18, 2021

• This release contains security updates and updates VMware Tools to version 11.2.6.

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October 14, 2021

• This release of VMware Workstation Pro addresses the following issue:
• Implemented clipboard-related security improvements suggested by Albert Priego Bravo of Group-IB.

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What’s new in VMware Workstation Pro 16.2.1 Build 18811642 | 2021-11-09:
Resolved Issues

• The Color Theme option is not visible in the VMware Workstation preferences. The color theme is not visible in the VMware Workstation preferences because the feature is now deactivated by default. To use the color theme feature, the user must activate the feature manually.
• The Custom Hardware button in the New Virtual Machine wizard is not working. While creating a virtual machine, if you click the Customize Hardware button on the New Virtual Machine Wizard, the wizard crashes.

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