Download VMware Player 4.0.2 build 591240

VMware has released version 4.0.2 of its Player. VMware Player is free software that can run virtual machines created with 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, various pre-installed virtual machines can be this page are downloaded, such as Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora. Version 4.0 brings several improvements in supported hardware, but comes with increased system requirements. In version 4.0.2, the following improvements have also been made:

What’s New

• Ubuntu 11.10 is supported as a host.
• Fedora 16 is supported as a guest.
• Many customer-reported issues have been resolved.

Resolved Issues

• The ACLs on the PID files needed improvement. VMware thanks Inode0 for bringing this to our attention.
• Releasing input from the guest to the host, for example, moving the cursor from the virtual machine window to the host screen, failed with an unrecoverable error.
• Copying and pasting from a guest to an Ubuntu 11.10 host failed.
• Shared folders did not work in Fedora 16 and OpenSuse 12.1 guests.
• In Ubuntu 11.10 hosts, key repeat was disabled after ungrabbing or quitting VMware Player.
• On a Windows host, a virtual machine configured to use a physical disk or partition failed to power on if the host had a volume backed by more than one physical disk, for example, a RAID system.