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VMware Fusion 8.5 | 13 SEP 2016 | Build 4352717 Last updated: 13 SEP 2016 Check for additions and updates to these release notes. |
What's in the Release Notes
About VMware Fusion
VMware Fusion 8.5 is the easiest, fastest, and most reliable way to run Windows and other x86 based operating systems on a Mac without rebooting.
For more information, see the broader VMware Fusion documentation or specifically the VMware Fusion 8.0 Documentation Center .
What's New
This release of VMware Fusion is a free upgrade for all VMware Fusion 8 users, it adds support for the following operating systems:
- macOS Sierra (10.12)
- Windows 10 Anniversary Update
- Windows Server 2016
VMware Fusion 8.5 also contains bug fixing, security updates and performance improvements.
Prior Releases
Features and Known Issues from prior releases of VMware Fusion are described in the release notes for each release. To view the release notes for prior releases of VMware Fusion 8, click the following links:
VMware Fusion 8.1.1
VMware Fusion 8.1
VMware Fusion 8.0.2
VMware Fusion 8.0.1
VMware Fusion 8.0
Known Issues
- If more than one monitor is used in Full Screen mode on macOS 10.12 host operating system, the virtual displays are merged into one space in different tabs, instead of creating Full Screen space on each monitor
On macOS 10.12 host operating system, if there is external monitor connected to the Mac machine, when you switch a virtual machine to Full Screen with "Use All Displays in Full Screen" option selected, the virtual machine shows in Full Screen only on one monitor and merges all virtual displays to it as tabs, instead of using separated spaces on all monitors. After changing the view mode back to Single Window, a redundant black space remains, and the Fusion menu bar is hidden automatically.
Workaround: Open the System Preferences on macOS 10.12 operating system, click the Dock icon. Choose "Manually" on the dropdown list of "Prefer tabs when opening documents".
- On macOS 10.12 host operating system, the tab bar on the virtual machine window becomes blank when grabbing mouse into the virtual machine
On macOS 10.12 host operating system, if you grab the mouse into a running virtual machine when there is no tools service running inside the guest OS, the tab bar shown on the virtual machine window becomes blank, and the Fusion menu Window > Merge All Windows is disabled for the virtual machine. This problem is observed if the virtual machine does not have VMware Tools installed or it has VMware Tools installed but the Tools services are not launched yet.
Workaround: Wait until VMware Tools services are launched inside the virtual machine before grabbing the mouse into it. When the tab bar becomes blank, closing and re-opening the virtual machine window can make it show up correctly again.
- VMs on the same NAT network and on the same host cannot communicate through an IPv6 address
When you set up a customized NAT network with IPv6 enabled and connect two VMs to that NAT network, the VMs cannot communicate with each other by using the IPv6 address. The VMs reside on the same host.
Workaround: None
- The built-in FaceTime HD camera stops working after Fusion launches on macOS 10.12 running on MacBookPro10.1
On macOS 10.12, the built-in FaceTime HD camera stops working after Fusion launches. This issue is specific to Mac model MacBookPro10.1 and macOS 10.12 operating system. It does not happen on other Mac models, and OS X 10.11 or prior operating systems.
Workaround: Use external camera or restart the Mac operating system to make the built-in FaceTime HD camera work again.
- VMs running on macOS 10.12 sometimes crash
A VM running on macOS 10.12 might crash when it tries to grab keyboard or mouse input from the host.
Workaround: None
Resolved Issues
- The Office applications in Windows virtual machine sometimes could not open the attachment in the mail application on Mac
Though the ‘Open your Mac files and web links using Windows applications’ option on the virtual machine’s Default Applications pane is checked, the Office applications inside Windows virtual machine sometimes could not open attachments in the mail application on Mac and returns “Access Denied” error message
This issue is resolved.
- When you start an imported Parallels 11 virtual machine in VMware Fusion, the virtual machine crashes
After you import a Parallels 11 virtual machine into VMware Fusion, attempting to power on the virtual machine fails with the error "Inaccessible Boot Device."
This issue is resolved.
- When the Full Screen Minibar is hidden at the edge of the screen, hovering the cursor over it does not make it appear
This issue occurs in Full Screen mode when the Full Screen Minibar is hidden at the edge of the screen. After you select View > Full Screen Minibar > Automatically Hide And Show, hovering the cursor over the Minibar does not make it appear.
This issue is resolved.
- Fusion crashes when you attempt to create a remote virtual machine on vCenter Server 5.5
While connected to vCenter Server 5.5, if you attempt to create a remote virtual machine and save it to an ESXi 5.5 host that is managed by the vCenter Server instance, VMware Fusion crashes.
This issue is resolved.
- 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 Fusion, 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.
This issue is resolved.
- The drag & drop operations might not work consistently between the host and Mac OS virtual machines
Attempts to drag and drop files between the host and a Mac OS virtual machine occasionally fail.
This issue is resolved.
