VMware Workstation

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

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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.

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