Download VMware Workstation Player 12.5 build 4352439

VMware has released version 12.5 of Workstation Player. Player is free software to create and run virtual machines. However, a fee is charged for commercial use. Simply put, it is a simplified implementation of other VMware products, such as Workstation, Server, and ESX Server. Microsoft Virtual PC virtual machines and Symantec LiveState Recovery disks are also supported. In addition, several pre-installed virtual machines can be installed via this page are downloaded, such as Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora. In version 12, support for Windows 10 and various Linux distributions has been added, the entering and exiting of sleep mode is faster and USB 3.0 can now also be used under Windows 7. In this update, support for Windows 10 with the Added Anniversary Update and Windows Server 2016. In addition, several other problems have been resolved.

What’s New

This release of VMware Workstation Player is a free upgrade for all VMware Workstation 12 Player users, it adds support for the following operating systems:

• Windows 10 Anniversary Update
• Windows Server 2016

Resolved Issues

• On a Linux host, when you click the close button on VMware Workstation Player window while the guest OS is shutting down, a question dialog appears. You wait until the guest OS is completely powered off, then you close the question dialog. The VMware Workstation Player window does not close.
• 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.
• After installing Workstation Player on a host running Fedora 23, Workstation Player fails to launch.
• You cannot connect specific USB Ethernet adapter to a running VM.
• On Surface Pro, you connect the Camera to the VM and it works correctly. When you disconnect the Camera from the VM, VMware Workstation Player throws Runtime error messages and stops working.
• Sometimes the guest OS resolution is incorrect when it changes from small to large in Workstation Player.
• VMware Workstation Player cannot boot virtual machines on a 64-bit Braswell N3150 processor and the following error occurs:
  MONITOR PANIC: vcpu-0:VERIFY vmcore/vmm/main/cpuid.c:376 bugNr=1036521
• 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 Player, 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.