VMware heeft versie 17.5.0 van Workstation Player uitgebracht. Player is gratis software waarmee virtuele machines kunnen worden gemaakt en gedraaid. Voor commercieel gebruik wordt echter wel een vergoeding gevraagd. Het is simpel gezegd een vereenvoudigde uitvoering van andere VMware-producten, zoals Workstation Pro, Server en ESX Server. Ook de virtual machines van Microsoft Virtual PC en Symantec LiveState Recovery-disks worden ondersteund. In versie 17.5.0 zijn de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen aangebracht:
What's NewResolved Issues
- This release introduces new security enhancement by providing an improved encryption scheme (XTS instead of CBC) for maximum protection with a reduced performance overhead. Please see https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/93071 for more information. This release resolves CVE-2023-34044. For more information on these vulnerabilities and their impact on VMware products, see VMSA-2023-0022.
- Commands You can now control virtual machines using the VMRUN command line utility in Workstation Player. You can use commands to perform various guest operations such as power on or off, capture snapshots for data backup, manage network adapters, run an executable program, manage files and directories, manage processes running on the operating system, and so on.
- You can now import or export a virtual machine with a vTPM device enabled using the OVF Tool. You can export a virtual machine with vTPM device into an OVF file, and then use the OVF file to import the virtual machine with a vTPM.
- You can now power on/off, suspend, pause, unpause, or retrieve the state of an encrypted virtual machine using the VMREST API service.
- VMware Hardware Version 21
- Support for up to 256 NVMe devices: 4 controllers and 64 devices per controller
- Support for NVMe 1.3 in the following guest operating systems:
- Microsoft Windows 11
- Microsoft Windows Server 2022
- The virtual printer feature has reached its end of life and has been removed from VMware Workstation Player.
Security Issues
- When you configure a virtual machine as a VNC server, the VNC client does not correctly show the mouse cursor for the virtual machine you control. This issue is resolved.
- Unable to start an encrypted virtual machine using VMRUN command without nogui This issue is resolved.
- If you use Workstation 17.0.1 or above on a Windows host with DHCP mode configured, a wireless bridge connection might not work on the host operating system. This issue is resolved.
- While creating an encrypted virtual machine with Windows guest operating system, if you check the option to remember the password, the virtual machine might prompt you to enter the password again when you try to log in. This issue is resolved.
- On Workstation Pro 17.0.1 or above, a user cannot downgrade the hardware compatibility version of a Windows 95/98 VM without VMware Tools installed. This issue is resolved.
- When you enable USB in Workstation Pro, the virtual machines fail to start with a BSOD error. This issue is resolved.
- When you use Microsoft Visual Studio on a Windows 10/11 guest operating system, the mouse does not click where the mouse pointer is positioned. The issue is resolved.
- When you install the following Linux-based guest operating system, the virtual machine might boot slowly or fail to boot:
This issue is resolved.
- Fedora
- AlmaLinux
- Debian
- SLES15
- Oracle Linux
- Photon OS
- After you change the value of a disk split for an encrypted virtual machine, you cannot decrypt or re-encrypt the virtual machine. This issue is resolved.
- Pixman has been updated to 0.42.2
- LibTIFF has been updated to 4.5.1
- SQLite3 has been updated to 3.42.0
- curl has been updated to 8.3
- OpenSSL has been updated to 3.0.10
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