#Older version of vmware player download install#

On Windows hosts, the VMware Player user interface sometimes became unresponsive when minimized from full-screen mode if the suggestion balloon was being displayed. Unity mode would exit if the title bar of an application contained certain non UTF-8 encoded extended ASCII characters. On rare occasions, Linux guests would suddenly fail to Autofit or enter Unity.

Linux guests running the Linux kernel version 2.6.34 or later could not be pinged from the host via an IPv6 address. * Animated cursors are now displayed correctly in a virtual machine. * The VMware monitor has been updated to work with Linux kernel 3.5.

#Older version of vmware player download install#

* Easy Install on the Linux version of Player now recognize all compatible operating systems. * To improve application startup performance, the data being collected as part of the optional User Experience Improvement Program will no longer be aggregated on every launch of Player. A more comprehensive error handling code has been added to prevent this problem from occurring. * After disconnecting certain USB devices from a virtual machine, Player would prevent devices from being reconnected without restarting the virtual machine. * Occasionally, certain elements in the Windows 8 user interface were incorrectly displayed. vmdk file as a drive by right-clicking the file in File Explorer has been restored. * For host systems with more than 4GB of memory, Player will use more of the available memory to run virtual machines. * Several security vulnerabilities have been addressed, including updating third party libraries. If you run Windows 8 hosts on IvyBridge processors, VMware strongly recommends that you update your installation of Player. * When powering on a virtual machine with Binary Translation on a SMEP-capable CPU, Player no longer causes the host to reset.