VMware Workstation and Player

[Grandalf]

VMware Workstation Pro 17.0

What's New​

• Auto Start Virtual Machine
  
  You can now configure the local virtual machines to start automatically when the host machine boots up.
• New Guest Operating System Support
  
  • Microsoft Windows 11
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2022
  • RHEL 9
  • Debian 11.x
  • Ubuntu 22.04
• New Virtual Trusted Platform Module 2.0
  
  Workstation Pro now offers a virtual Trusted Platform Module (version 2.0) device to support Windows 11 and other operating systems that require a TPM.
• New Full or Fast Encryption features
  
  You can now choose between security (Full) and performance (Fast) options for encyption.
• Improved Graphics Support: OpenGL 4.3
  
  Workstation Pro now supports OpenGL 4.3 for the virtual machines.
  
  • Guest Operating System Requirements
    
    • Windows 7 or higher
    • Linux with Mesa 22.0.0 and Linux kernel 5.16.0
• Support for WDDM 1.2
  
  Workstation Pro now supports WDDM (Windows Display Driver Model) version 1.2 for the virtual machines.

Zaloguj lub Zarejestruj się aby zobaczyć!

Zaloguj lub Zarejestruj się aby zobaczyć!

Zaloguj lub Zarejestruj się aby zobaczyć!

 

[Camel1965]

VMware Workstation Pro 17.0.1 Build 21139696​

February 3, 2023

• What's New:
• This release resolves CVE-2023-20854. For more information on this vulnerability and its impact on VMware products, see VMSA-2023-0003.
• This release contains bug fixes.

Zaloguj lub Zarejestruj się aby zobaczyć!

 

[Camel1965]

VMware Workstation Pro 17.0.2 Build 21581411​

What’s new in VMware Workstation Pro 17.0.2 | 2023-04-25:​

• This release resolves CVE-2023-20869, and CVE-2023-20870. For more information on these vulnerabilities and their impact on VMware products
• This release contains bug fixes

Zaloguj lub Zarejestruj się aby zobaczyć!

 

[Camel1965]

VMware Workstation Player 17.5.0 Build 22583795​

• New Security Enhancement. This release introduces new security enhancement by providing an improved encryption scheme (XTS instead of CBC) for maximum protection with a reduced performance overhead.
• Control Virtual Machines using the VMRUN Commands. You can now control virtual machines using the VMRUN command line utility in Workstation Pro. You can use commands to perform various guest operations such as power on or off, capture snapshots for data backup, manage network adapters, run an executable program, manage files and directories, manage processes running on the operating system, and so on.
• Import and Export Virtual Machines with vTPM device. You can now import or export a virtual machine with a vTPM device enabled using the OVF Tool. You can export a virtual machine with vTPM device into an OVF file, and then use the OVF file to import the virtual machine with a vTPM.
• Manage Power Operations of Encrypted Virtual Machines using VMREST API. You can now power on/off, suspend, pause, unpause, or retrieve the state of an encrypted virtual machine using the VMREST API service.
• VMware Hardware Version 21
  • Support for up to 256 NVMe devices: 4 controllers and 64 devices per controller
  • Support for NVMe 1.3 in the following guest operating systems:
    • Microsoft Windows 11
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2022

Zaloguj lub Zarejestruj się aby zobaczyć!

 

[Camel1965]

VMware Workstation Player 17.5.1 Build 23298084

This release resolves CVE-2024-22251. For more information on this vulnerability and its impact on VMware products, see VMSA-2024-0005

Zaloguj lub Zarejestruj się aby zobaczyć!

 

[Camel1965]

VMware Workstation Pro 17.5.2

Zaloguj lub Zarejestruj się aby zobaczyć!

Zaloguj lub Zarejestruj się aby zobaczyć!

 

[Camel1965]

VMware Workstation 17.6.0​

Zaloguj lub Zarejestruj się aby zobaczyć!

Zaloguj lub Zarejestruj się aby zobaczyć!

 

[Camel1965]

VMware Workstation Player 17.6.1​

Oct 10, 2024

• Known Issues:
• The multi-monitor feature might not work correctly in specific topologies
• In specific situations, based on different hardware and topologies, the multi-monitor feature does not work as expected. You might see issues like reverting the topology to a single screen, or not cycling through monitors.
• Resolved Issues:
• When creating a new virtual machine from an ISO image file, VMware Workstation does not recognize Windows 11 24H2
• If you create a virtual machine from a Windows 11242 ISO image file, VMware Workstation recognizes a Windows Server 2025 iso file instead.
• Powering on a virtual machine fails with VMware Workstation 17.6 - unrecoverable error: (svga) svga Exception 0xc0000005 error
• Powering on a virtual machine with the 3D graphics feature deactivated and activated Allow hardware acceleration for all virtual machine consoles from the VMware Workstation preferences fails with VMware Workstation 17.6 - unrecoverable error: (svga) svga Exception 0xc0000005 error.
• Cannot install or upgrade VMware Workstation 17.6 on a non-English host system
• If you try to install or upgrade VMware Workstation on a host system in a different locale than English, an MSI pop-up error appears.
• CentOS 9 Stream with kernel versions later than 5.14.0-432 is not supported on Workstation Player 17.6 as a host
• CentOS 9 Stream with kernel versions later than 5.14.0-432 is not supported on Workstation Player 17.6 as a host.

Zaloguj lub Zarejestruj się aby zobaczyć!

 

[Camel1965]

VMware Workstation Player 17.6.2​

Zaloguj lub Zarejestruj się aby zobaczyć!