Windows 7: VMware Player 4.0.1 Released

Airbot · 18 Nov 2011

VMWare Player 4.0.1 is released.

Information

"What's New

VMware Player 4.0.1 is a free update for all VMware Player 4 users. Highlights of VMware Player 4.0.1 functionality include:

Resolved Issues

The following issues are resolved in VMware Player 4.0.1.

Windows 7 guest installation failed after powering on the virtual machine with the error A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing. If you have a driver floppy disk, CD, DVD, or USB flash drive, please insert it now.
VMware Tools failed with the message VMware Tools unrecoverable error.
VMware Tools failed to start in Fedora 15 guests.
An Ubuntu 11.10 guest crashed with a signal 11 error if you installed or upgraded VMware Tools.
On hosts with Nvidia GeForce and Quadro video cards, some of the clouds in the Unigine Heaven Benchmark application were drawn solid black.
Easy Install did not properly function on Ubuntu 11.10.
CD/DVD mount Linux.iso failed while installing VMware Tools in Ubuntu 11.10 guests.
The AltGr key was not working in an Ubuntu guest in Unity mode when the host and guest keyboards were both set to a layout that contained the AltGr key."

VMware Player

Last version, with changleog:

VMware Player 4.0 Released

pparks1 · 18 Nov 2011

Let's hope they fixed the issue where you couldn't import XP Mode. I'm off to test.

pparks1 · 19 Nov 2011

Unfortunately, the conversion of XP Mode is still broken in this release.

VMware Player 4.0.1 Released problems?