Enabling a Virtual Machine to Print to Host Printers

VMware Virtual Printer is a technology that allows you to print from a virtual machine to any printer available to the host machine without having to install additional drivers in the virtual machine. When you enable VMware Virtual Printer, Workstation Player configures a virtual serial port to communicate with the host printers.

Starting with version 15 of Workstation Player, the version of VMware Tools downloaded from the VMware software update server no longer delivers VMware Virtual Printer functionality. You must install the VMware Virtual Printer application separately in the guest operating system to make the printers on the host visible in the virtual machine.

Before you install VMware Virtual Printer on a virtual machine, you must add a virtual printer device to the virtual machine.