VMware Workstation Player 15.0.4 for PC Windows

# Adds support for the following operating systems:
* Windows 10 Anniversary Update
* Windows Server 2016
# Bug fixing, security updates and performance improvements.
# Resolved Issues
* VMware Workstation Player window does not close after the VM is powered off
- On a Linux host, when you click the close button on VMware Workstation Player window while the guest OS is shutting down, a question dialog appears. You wait until the guest OS is completely powered off, then you close the question dialog. The VMware Workstation Player window does not close.
* Unable to install VMware Tools in FreeBSD 10.3 guest OS
- 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.
* Unable to launch Workstation Player on Fedora 23 host
- After installing Workstation Player on a host running Fedora 23, Workstation Player fails to launch.
* USB Ethernet adapter fails to connect to the VM
- You cannot connect specific USB Ethernet adapter to a running VM.
* VMware Workstation Player throws Runtime Error when you disconnect Surface Camera from a VM
- On Surface Pro, you connect the Camera to the VM and it works correctly. When you disconnect the Camera from the VM, VMware Workstation Player throws Runtime error messages and stops working.
* You experience incorrect resolution in Workstation Player
- Sometimes the guest OS resolution is incorrect when it changes from small to large in Workstation Player.
* VMware Workstation Player cannot boot virtual machines on a 64-bit Braswell N3150 processor
- VMware Workstation Player cannot boot virtual machines on a 64-bit Braswell N3150 processor and the following error occurs:
> MONITOR PANIC: vcpu-0:VERIFY vmcore/vmm/main/cpuid.c:376 bugNr=1036521
* On the Ubuntu 15.10 and later versions guest operating system, replacing open-vm-tools with the bundled VMware Tools version, might cause VMware Tools to work improperly
- 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 Player, 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.

# Resolved Issues
* Running graphic software with MSAA enabled causes VMware Workstation Player to crash
* DNS names are not resolved in a Windows virtual machine running on an Ubuntu 16.04 host
* Enabling port forwarding breaks NAT
* Attempting to format a USB flash drive in a Windows guest with a USB 3.0 controller fails with an error
* When using an Android Debug Bridge (ADB) daemon in an Ubuntu or Debian guest, the VMware Workstation Player window becomes unresponsive over time

# Resolved Issues
- During the Easy Install process, VMware Workstation Pro misinterprets Windows 10 Version 1511 ISO images as Windows server 2012 R2 images .When creating a new virtual machine, if you select a Windows 10 version 1511 ISO file in the New Virtual Machine Wizard, the wizard says "Windows 10 detected. The operating system will use Easy Install". But in the next step, the "Version of Windows to install" dialog box only displays options for Windows Server 2012 R2.
- The Microsoft Excel application responds to input with a one-second delay .When you run Microsoft Excel 2013 on a Windows 10 virtual machine, the application responds to your input with a one-second delay.
- When you issue the vmrun command with the nogui option on VMware Workstation 12 Player, the command fails
- A UAS device connected to a USB 3.0 port on a Windows 7 or later host might fail to successfully connect to the guest. When a UAS device is connected to a guest operating system and you turn the device off and back on, the device does not successfully reconnect to the guest. In Workstation Pro when you select VM > Removable Devices, the device is listed as connected to the guest, but the device does not appear in Windows Explorer within the guest.

- Maintenance release that resolves some known issues

- Includes bug fixes.

- Vmware Player 7.1.1 is a free maintenance release that provides a security fix for our users.

* This release of VMware Player includes bug fixes. It also enables a user to edit Memory and Processors settings for a restricted virtual machine without entering the restrictions password for the virtual machine.

# New Operating System Support
* Support has been added for the following guest operating systems:
> Windows 8.1 Update
> Windows Server 2012 R2
> Windows 10 Technical Preview (Experimental support)
> Ubuntu 14.10
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
> CentOS 7
> OpenSUSE 13.2
> SUSE Linux Enterprise 12
# VMware Hardware Version 11
* Hardware versions introduce new virtual hardware functionality and new features while enabling VMware to run legacy operating systems in virtual machines. New features included in this hardware version:
* New CPU enablement, including Intel Haswell microarchitecture extension support.
> VMware Player 7 is optimized to take advantage of new Haswell extensions, delivering up to 45% improvement in CPU-intensive operations like multimedia, encryption/decryption, and other strenuous performance tests.
> Updated xHCI controller
> Updated NDIS drive
# Allocate up to 2GB video memory to a virtual machine

- Fixes memory issue in Workstation on Microsoft Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012.

- Updated to the OPENSSL library version openssl-0.9.8za where necessary to address CVE-2014-0224 , CVE-2014-0198, CVE-2010-5298, and CVE-2014-3470.

- KVM mode has been added to VMware Player.
- Improved compatibility and audio performance with certain USB audio and video devices.
- The VMware Tools can be properly updated when upgrading VMware Player to a newer version.
- The VMware Player UI now displays correctly when powering on an old hardware version.

# Resolved Issues
* Download All Components Now button not working.
- When you navigate to Player > File > Player Preferences and click the Download All Components Now button, the button does not work as intended.
* Workstation or Player on Windows freezes if another application is frozen.
- What's going on: Workstation or Player incorrectly attempts to communicate with the frozen application and is stuck waiting for it to respond.
* Virtual machine hangs while powering off
- Rarely, virtual machines will cease functioning (hang) while powering off, particularly if the guest OS was in the middle of a BSOD or kernel panic.
* Easy Install does not recognize RTM builds of Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 disc
- In the new virtual machine wizard, when you select a disc or ISO of the RTM build of Windows 8.1 or Windows Server 2012 R2, the image is not recognized. Easy Install does not work with the RTM builds of those operating systems.

# The following issues are resolved
- On a Windows 7 host, when you plug and unplug a headset several times, the audio card of the guest would not work. This has been fixed in Workstation 9.0.2.
- When installing VMware Tools in Linux virtual machines, the The default screen resolution options have been standardized to 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, or 1280x800 for the initial login. After login, resolution can be set to any value the user desires or Autofit can be used.
- Image copy/paste now correctly function with Solaris 10 and 11 guests.
- The list of available NICs in the Automatic Bridging Settings dialog window is now refreshed without restarting Player.
- A memory leak that impacted Windows hosts and guests has been fixed.
- When running in a Linux distribution using the GNOME 3 desktop environment, Desktop folders now open as expected.
- VMware Tools no longer crashes on Windows 2008 Server Core x64 SP2 operating system, with the following error:
> VMware Tools unrecoverable error: (vthread-3)
> Exception 0xc0000005 (access violation) has occurred.
> However, Windows 2008 Server Core x64 SP2 is not a supported operating system for VMware Workstation.
- Scrolling with a Lenovo ThinkPad UltraNav scroll button no longer requires excessive force.