What's in the Release Notes

The release notes cover the following topics:

About VMware Workstation Pro
What's New
Prior Releases
Known Issues

About VMware Workstation Pro

VMware Workstation Pro enables technical professionals to develop, test, demonstrate, and deploy software by running multiple x86-based Windows, Linux, and other operating systems simultaneously on the same PC.

You can replicate server, desktop, and tablet environments in a virtual machine and allocate multiple processor cores, gigabytes of main memory and graphics memory to each virtual machine, whether the virtual machine resides on a personal PC or on a private enterprise cloud.

For more information, see the broader VMware Workstation Pro documentation or specifically the VMware Workstation 12 Pro Documentation Center.

What's New

This release of VMware Workstation Pro is a free upgrade for all VMware Workstation 12 Pro users. This release includes the following highlights:

Day 0 support of the Windows 10 Creators Update (version 1703). End users can create virtual machines with the Windows 10 Creators Update or by installing VMware Workstation 12 Pro on a Windows 10 Creators Update operating system.
Bug fixes and security updates.

Prior Releases

Features and Known Issues from prior releases of VMware Workstation Pro are described in the release notes for each release. To view release notes for prior releases of VMware Workstation 12 Pro, click the following links:

Known Issues

After upgrading VMware Tools, the VMware shared folder drive is shown as disconnected with a red "X" in the guest OS
After upgrading VMware Tools to version 10.1.5 or 10.1.6 and rebooting Windows, Windows Explorer shows the VMware Shared Folder drive as disconnected with a red "X".

Workaround:
Refresh the connection by clicking the drive and accessing it as normal.