What's New
The following support is new in Workstation 14 Player:
- Windows 10 Creators Update support
VMware Workstation Player provides the following support for Windows 10 Creators Update:
- Run Windows 10 Creators Update as a virtual machine
- Run Windows 10 Creators Update as a host operating system
- Windows 10 Creators Update Auto Detect and Easy Install
- Unity support for Windows 10
- New Guest operating systems support
Support has been added for the following operating systems:
- Ubuntu 17.04
- Fedora 26
- CentOS 7.4
- RHEL 7.4
- Debian 9.1
- Oracle Linux 7.4
- SLE 12 SP3
- OpenSUSE 42.3
- New CPU enablement
Intel Skylake and AMD Ryzen CPU support is enabled.
- Virtual NVMe support
Workstation 14 Player introduces a new virtual NVMe storage controller. NVMe devices require virtual hardware version 13 / ESXi 6.5 compatibility and later.
- Secure Boot
Workstation 14 Player introduces Secure Boot support for Virtual Machines to ensure only trusted code is loaded by the UEFI firmware prior to the OS "handoff" process.
- Network Latency simulation
With new Network Latency Simulation feature, you can simulate a specific network environment along with existing network speed and packet loss simulator.
- Native OVF support
With improved OVF/OVA support, Workstation Player provides an effortless walkthrough to deploy the VMware VCSA (vCenter Server Appliance) OVA package for testing and experimentation within Workstation. VCSA6.0 and 6.5 are supported.
- New GTK+ 3 based UI for Linux
Linux Workstation Player UI has been rewritten to support GTK+ 3.
Known Issues
The following issues might occur in this version of VMware Workstation Player.
- "The VMware Tools power-on script did not run successfully in this virtual machine" error prompts out when power on a VCSA6.0 appliance
Power on an imported VCSA6.0 appliance within Workstation Pro, following error message will prompt out:"The VMware Tools power-on script did not run successfully in this virtual machine"
Workaround: Click "OK" button to ignore the error message.
- USB devices on some of the 3.1 xhci controllers are not available for passthrough on windows hosts
USB devices connected to some USB 3.1 controllers are not listed under “VM > Removable Devices”, hence the device cannot be pass-through to the virtual machine.
Workaround: None.
- Windows 10 Insider Preview virtual machine may become black screen after exit Unity or multimonitor
When you have more than 1 monitors connecting to your host, Windows 10 Insider Preview VM may become black screen under following scenarios:
- Enter Unity mode and then Exit Unity mode
- Switch to multimonitor mode, then switch back to 1 monitor
Workaround: You can switch back to Unity mode or original multimonitor mode to get VM’s display normal.
