Whats New$$$The 17.6.3 release resolves CVE-2025-22224 and CVE-2025-22226. For more information on these vulnerabilities and their impact on Broadcom products; see VMSA-2025-0004.$$$VMware Workstation Pro no longer requires a license key and is now free for commercial; educational; and personal use.$$$VMware Workstation Pro 17.6.3 provides various bug fixes requested by customers.

Whats New$$$Free Licensing Model$$$VMware Workstation Pro no longer requires a license key and is now free for commercial; educational; and personal use.$$$Bug Fixes$$$VMware Workstation Pro 17.6.2 provides various bug fixes requested by customers.$$$Known Issues$$$The multi-monitor feature might not work correctly in specific topologies$$$In specific situations; based on different hardware and topologies; the multi-monitor feature does not work as expected. You might see issues like reverting the topology to a single screen; or not cycling through monitors.$$$Workaround: None.$$$Resolved Issues$$$After performing snapshot operations in the Snapshot Manager; VMware Workstation for Linux crashes$$$Taking; deleting; or restoring snapshots through the Snapshot Manager might cause VMware Workstation for Linux to crash. This issue is resolved in VMware Workstation 17.6.2.$$$Virtual machines on Windows 11 hosts become unresponsive after unlocking the host$$$After locking or unlocking the host with a virtual machine installed on a Windows 11 host; the virtual machine becomes unresponsive. The issue is resolved in VMware Workstation 17.6.2.$$$The kcompactd kernel process causes virtual machines on Linux hosts to become unresponsive$$$Virtual machines on Linux hosts eventually become unresponsive because of the kcompactd kernel process. The issue is resolved in VMware Workstation 17.6.2.

Whats New$$$VMware Workstation 17.6.1 Pro provides various bug fixes requested by customers.$$$$$$Known Issues$$$The multi-monitor feature might not work correctly in specific topologies$$$$$$In specific situations; based on different hardware and topologies; the multi-monitor feature does not work as expected. You might see issues like reverting the topology to a single screen; or not cycling through monitors.$$$$$$Workaround: None.$$$$$$Resolved Issues$$$When creating a new virtual machine from an ISO image file; VMware Workstation does not recognize Windows 11 24H2$$$$$$If you create a virtual machine from a Windows 11242 ISO image file; VMware Workstation recognizes a Windows Server 2025 iso file instead.$$$$$$Powering on a virtual machine fails with VMware Workstation 17.6 - unrecoverable error: (svga) svga Exception 0xc0000005 error$$$$$$Powering on a virtual machine with the 3D graphics feature deactivated and activated Allow hardware acceleration for all virtual machine consoles from the VMware Workstation preferences fails with VMware Workstation 17.6 - unrecoverable error: (svga) svga Exception 0xc0000005 error.$$$$$$Cannot install or upgrade VMware Workstation 17.6 on a non-English host system$$$$$$If you try to install or upgrade VMware Workstation on a host system in a different locale than English; an MSI pop-up error appears.$$$$$$CentOS 9 Stream with kernel versions later than 5.14.0-432 is not supported on Workstation Pro 17.6 as a host$$$$$$CentOS 9 Stream with kernel versions later than 5.14.0-432 is not supported on Workstation Pro 17.6 as a host.

Whats New$$$Introducing vmcli$$$$$$vmcli is a command-line tool included with VMware Workstation Pro; enabling users to interact with the hypervisor directly from a Linux or macOS terminal; or the Windows command prompt. With vmcli; you can perform a variety of operations such as creating new virtual machines; generating VM templates; powering on VMs; and modifying various VM settings. Additionally; you can also create scripts to run multiple commands sequentially. For more information; see Using VMware Workstation Pro.$$$$$$New Guest Operating System Support$$$$$$Windows Server 2025$$$$$$Windows 11 Version 23H2$$$$$$Ubuntu 24.04$$$$$$Fedora 40$$$$$$New Host Operating System Support$$$$$$Windows Server 2025$$$$$$Windows 11 Version 23H2$$$$$$Ubuntu 24.04$$$$$$Fedora 40$$$$$$

Whats New$$$This release introduces product enhancements to support a new commercial subscription and personal use license model. For more information; see Learn Subscription.$$$$$$This release resolves CVE-2024-22267; CVE-2024-22268; CVE-2024-22269; and CVE-2024-22270. For more information on these vulnerabilities and their impact on VMware products; see VMSA-2024-0010.$$$$$$This release contains security and bug fixes.$$$$$$Product Support Notices$$$Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro are now available free for personal use. By default; each product is licensed only for Personal Use. A license key for personal use is no longer required.$$$$$$Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro require a commercial subscription and associated license key for use in any commercial setting.$$$$$$Commercial subscriptions for both Fusion Pro and Workstation Pro are now offered through a single Desktop Hypervisor Pro product SKU.$$$$$$

Whats New$$$This release contains security and bug fixes.$$$$$$This release resolves CVE-2024-22251. For more information on this vulnerability and its impact on VMware products; see VMSA-2024-0005.$$$$$$

Whats New$$$New Security Enhancement$$$$$$This release introduces new security enhancement by providing an improved encryption scheme (XTS instead of CBC) for maximum protection with a reduced performance overhead. Please see https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/93071 for more information.$$$$$$This release resolves CVE-2023-34044. For more information on these vulnerabilities and their impact on VMware products; see VMSA-2023-0022.$$$$$$Control Virtual Machines using the VMRUN Commands$$$$$$You can now control virtual machines using the VMRUN command line utility in Workstation Pro. You can use commands to perform various guest operations such as power on or off; capture snapshots for data backup; manage network adapters; run an executable program; manage files and directories; manage processes running on the operating system; and so on.$$$$$$Import and Export Virtual Machines with vTPM device$$$$$$You can now import or export a virtual machine with a vTPM device enabled using the OVF Tool. You can export a virtual machine with vTPM device into an OVF file; and then use the OVF file to import the virtual machine with a vTPM.$$$$$$Manage Power Operations of Encrypted Virtual Machines using VMREST API$$$$$$You can now power on/off; suspend; pause; unpause; or retrieve the state of an encrypted virtual machine using the VMREST API service.$$$$$$VMware Hardware Version 21$$$$$$Support for up to 256 NVMe devices: 4 controllers and 64 devices per controller$$$$$$Support for NVMe 1.3 in the following guest operating systems:$$$$$$Microsoft Windows 11$$$$$$Microsoft Windows Server 2022$$$$$$Product Support Notices$$$The virtual printer feature has reached its end of life and has been removed from VMware Workstation Pro. $$$$$$

Whats New$$$This release resolves CVE-2023-20854. For more information on this vulnerability and its impact on VMware products; see VMSA-2023-0003.$$$$$$This release contains bug fixes.$$$$$$Prior Releases$$$Features and Known Issues from prior releases of VMware Workstation 16 Pro are described in the release notes for each release. To view the release notes for a prior release; click the appropriate link:$$$$$$VMware Workstation 17.0 Pro$$$$$$VMware Workstation 16.2.5 Pro$$$$$$Resolved Issues$$$Unable to connect USB devices to a virtual machine$$$$$$After you create a virtual machine; you cannot connect a USB device to the virtual machine. The issue occurs because the default value of the usb.restrictions.defaultAllow option is configured to FALSE in the VMX configuration file when the virtual machine is created.$$$$$$This issue is resolved.

Whats New$$$This release resolves CVE-2022-31705. For more information on this vulnerability and its impact on VMware products; see VMSA-2022-0033.$$$$$$This release contains bug fixes.

Whats New$$$Auto Start Virtual Machine$$$$$$You can now configure the local virtual machines to start automatically when the host machine boots up.$$$$$$New Guest Operating System Support$$$$$$Microsoft Windows 11$$$$$$Microsoft Windows Server 2022$$$$$$RHEL 9$$$$$$Debian 11.x$$$$$$Ubuntu 22.04$$$$$$New Virtual Trusted Platform Module 2.0$$$$$$Workstation Pro now offers a virtual Trusted Platform Module (version 2.0) device to support Windows 11 and other operating systems that require a TPM.

This release resolves CVE-2022-22983. For more information on this vulnerability and its impact on VMware products; visit: https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0023.html$$$This release contains bug fixes.