VMware Workstation updated to 9.0.2

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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

You can read the full release 9.0.2 release notes here. You can update Workstation by going to menu Help > Software Updates or download it directly from VMware.

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