Download VMware Workstation Pro 12.5 build 4352439

VMware has released version 12.5 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, which requires a choice of 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. This update adds support for Windows 10 with the Anniversary Update and Windows Server 2016. In addition, several other problems have been resolved.

What’s New
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

• A Linux host with kernel 4.6 fails to launch Workstation because the vmmon and vmnet drivers are not built successfully.
• If you configure Revert to snapshot when a VM is powered off from Options-> Snapshots, the VM actually reverts to a snapshot when suspended.
• With the latest Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview, this issue no longer exists.
• 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.
• 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.
• On RHEL 6.8 host with kernel 2.6.32-642.el6.x86_64, Workstation fails to launch due to vmnet driver compilation error.
• 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.
• 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.
• After installing Workstation on a host running Fedora 23, Workstation fails to launch.
• When installing Workstation to a customized folder path, canceling the installation deletes all the contents in the destination folder.
• 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 and the following error appears:
• 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 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 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.
• You cannot connect specific USB Ethernet adapter to a running VM.