VMware Workstation Pro 12.5.0

VMware Workstation

VMware Workstation provides a seamless way to access all of the virtual machines you need, regardless of where they are running. Remotely connect to virtual machines running on VMware vSphere, ESXi or another copy of VMware Workstation. Workstation’s web interface lets you access local and server hosted virtual machines from your PC, smart phone, tablet or any device with a modern browser. Run applications on multiple operating systems including Linux, Windows and more at the same time on the same PC without rebooting. Evaluate and test new operating systems, applications and patches in an isolated environment.

Take Your Productivity to the Next Level

Run applications on multiple operating systems including Linux, Windows and more at the same time on the same PC without rebooting.
Evaluate and test new operating systems, applications and patches in an isolated environment.
Demonstrate complex software applications on a single laptop in a repeatable, reliable manner.
Consolidate multiple computers running web servers, database servers, etc. onto a single machine.
Build reference architectures for evaluation before deploying into production.
Simply drag and drop to move your virtual machines from your PC to vSphere, or the cloud.

What's new in VMware Workstation Pro 12.5.0:

VMware Workstation 12 Pro version 12.5 is a free upgrade for all VMware Workstation 12 Pro users, it adds support for the following operating systems:
Windows 10 Anniversary Update
Windows Server 2016

Resolved issues in VMware Workstation Pro 12.5.0:

VMware Workstation Pro cannot launch on Linux host with kernel 4.6
A Linux host with kernel 4.6 fails to launch Workstation because the vmmon and vmnet drivers are not built successfully.
The VM reverts back to a snapshot when suspending
If you configure Revert to snapshot when a VM is powered off from Options-> Snapshots, the VM actually reverts to a snapshot when suspended.
On Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview host, help links do not appear
With the latest Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview, this issue no longer exists.
Unable to install VMware Tools in FreeBSD 10.3 guest OS
Due to changes in the FreeBSD system-bundled Perl, you cannot install VMware Tools in a FreeBSD 10.3 guest OS and you get a vmware-install.real.pl: not found error when executing the ./vmware-install.pl script.
USB autoconnect VMX entry is getting removed when the USB device is disconnected from the VM
The issue occurs after you add a VMX entry to autoconnect the USB device to a VM by using VID and PID. This entry is getting removed when you disconnect the USB device from VM through VM > Removable device > Disconnect.
Workstation fails to launch on RHEL 6.8 host with kernel 2.6.32-642.el6.x86_64
On RHEL 6.8 host with kernel 2.6.32-642.el6.x86_64, Workstation fails to launch due to vmnet driver compilation error.
Wireless adapter cannot connect after Workstation is installed
Beginning with Windows 8, Microsoft implement a security policy (GPO) that prevents non-domain and domain simultaneous connections. When this GPO is enabled and Workstation is installed, Windows considers the virtual adapters that Workstation creates as physical connections. Therefore, the wireless connection cannot be established because Windows prefers the wired connection (virtual adapter) to wifi connections.
Workstation menu View->Fit Guest Now does not work for Windows Vista guest with VMware Tools installed
When you power on a Windows Vista guest with latest VMware Tools installed, and click Workstation menu View->Fit Guest Now, the guest screen does not change.
Unable to launch Workstation on Fedora 23 host
After installing Workstation on a host running Fedora 23, Workstation fails to launch.
Sometimes canceling Workstation installation deletes all the contents in the destination folder
When installing Workstation to a customized folder path, canceling the installation deletes all the contents in the destination folder.
You hit a VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (svga) when running 3D application in the guest
If your Windows host has an NVDIA GPU, you might hit the VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (svga) when running a 3D application in the guest.
VMware Workstation Pro cannot boot virtual machine on a 64-bit Braswell N3150 processor.
VMware Workstation Pro cannot boot virtual machine on a 64-bit Braswell N3150 processor and the following error appears:
MONITOR PANIC: vcpu-0:VERIFY vmcore/vmm/main/cpuid.c:376 bugNr=1036521.
Some types of smart card are not accessible in the guest on a Linux host
On a Linux host, when you try to connect smart card to guest via Workstation through VM->Removable Devices, the guest can detect the smart card reader, but is not able to access the smart card.
On the Ubuntu 15.10 and later versions guest operating system, replacing open-vm-tools with the bundled VMware Tools version, might cause VMware Tools to work improperly
On the Ubuntu 15.10 and later versions guest OS, when you replace open-vm-tools with the VMware Tools version bundled with VMware Workstation Pro, VMware Tools does not work as expected. After you reboot the system, an Ubuntu crash report might appear and one of the services in VMware Tools might stop working.
The amount of memory used by the guest OS cannot be limited
The guest OS uses the full amount of memory allocated to the virtual machine even if you try to limit the amount of memory used by the guest OS through the BCDEdit 'truncatememory' option.
USB Ethernet adapter fails to connect to the VM
You cannot connect specific USB Ethernet adapter to a running VM.