VMware Workstation 2

VMware Workstation updated to 9.0.2

March 10, 2013 VMware

VMware is released a maintenance update for VMware Workstation to version 9.0.2. The update is available for free for all VMware Workstation 9.x customers.

Mostly just bug fixes and a few improvements, here are a few highlights:

Fedora 18 supported as a guest operating system
Windows 8 host permissions issues fixed
VMware Tool updated to support the latest Linux kernels
Improved general host resource management
OVF Tool has been updated to version 3.0.2
Virtual machine sharing improvements
Memory leak which impacted Windows hosts has been fixed

VMware Workstation 8.0.4 released

June 14, 2012July 5, 2012 VMware

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VMware has just released it’s forth minor update for VMware Workstation 8, bringing it up to 8.0.4. The looks to contain mostly a few bug and security fixes.

General Issues

Linux guests running the Linux kernel version 2.6.34 or later could not be pinged from the host via an IPv6 address.
On rare occasions, Linux guests would suddenly fail to Autofit or enter Unity.
Unity mode would exit if the title bar of an application contained certain non UTF-8 encoded extended ASCII characters.
On Windows hosts, the VMware Workstation user interface sometimes became unresponsive when minimized from full-screen mode if the suggestion balloon was being displayed.
On Windows hosts, the user interface sometimes became unresponsive if the application was rendered on an extended display that was abruptly disconnected.