Software Update: VMware Workstation Pro 12.5.2 build 4638234

VMware has released version 12.5.2 of its virtualization software Workstation Pro. With this program it is possible to create one or more virtual computers on which a large number of different operating systems can be installed. That way, they can be used side by side, as opposed to a dual boot setup, where you have to choose one or the other. VMware Workstation is available for Windows and Linux, and licenses start at around $250. More information about the possibilities of this package can be found on this page are being found. Some minor issues have been fixed in this update.

Resolved Issues

• If you delete VMnet8 and VMnet1 in the Virtual Network Editor, then bridged networking is no longer available after the host is restarted. This issue could appear after upgrading to Workstation 12.5.
• Trying to execute vmrun commands on a RHEL 6.8 or CentOS 6.8 host machine, results in errors.
• If you install Workstation 12.5 on a RHEL 6.8 host machine, vmware-hostd cannot start. As a result, shared virtual machines are not available.
• When powering on a virtual machine that uses EFI firmware instead of BIOS, the virtual machine sometimes crashes witha 0xc0000374 (Heap Corruption) exception.
• vmciver.dll is not deleted after uninstalling VMware Workstation from a Windows host operating system

Known Issues

• When using multiple monitors with an Ubuntu 16.10 virtual machine, you may see a black screen or all the displays on one monitor. This issue can occur when you cycle through three or more monitors. The issue can occur when you are using VMware Tools or open-vm-tools.
  Workaround: Reboot the virtul machine and cycle through the monitors again.
• Virtual Machines running Linux kernel version 4.7 or above may crash during installation or during power-on with a crash in the intel_powerclamp driver. This issue has been reported with Ubuntu 16.10, but it is a generic Linux kernel issue.
  Workaround: VMware is working with the OS vendors to have them fix their respective kernels. Until a fix is ​​available, you can blacklist the intel_powerclamp driver so that the buggy code doesn’t get loaded.
• After installing VMware Tools in an Ubuntu 16.10 guest, the VMware Tools service is not started. As a result, functionality provided by the VMware Tools service, for example, shared folders, is not available.
  Workaround: In the guest operating system, manually start the VMware Tools service.
• After VMware Workstation is uninstalled, the following driver-related files remain on the Windows host operating system in C:\Windows\System32\drivers:
  • hcmon.sys
  • vmci.sys
  • vmx86.sys
  • vmkbd.sys in case Enhanced Keyboard Driver was installed.

  Workaround: Manually delete hcmon.sys, vmci.sys, vmx86.sys, and vmkbd.sys.