VMware: VMware Workstation 6.5.2 Released

Workstation Version 6.5.2 | 31 March 2009 | Build 156735

Check frequently for additions and updates to these release notes.

These release notes cover the following topics:

• What’s New
• Prior Releases
• Known Issues
• Resolved Issues

What’s New

Workstation 6.5.2 is a maintenance release that resolves security as well as some known issues. With this release of VMware Workstation, certain new features and support have been added.

Support for New Guest Operating Systems

VMware provides support for the following operating systems for Workstation 6.5.2:

• Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2
• Asianux Server 3.0 Service Pack 1
• openSUSE 11.1
• Ubuntu 8.10
• Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

VMware provides experimental support to the following operating systems for Workstation:

• Fedora 11
• FreeBSD 7.1
• Mandriva Linux 2009
• Novell SLE11.0
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8
• Sun Solaris 10 Update 6
• Ubuntu 9.04

Refer the Guest Operating System Installation Guide for more information on the support for operating systems.

Support for Intel Microarchitecture (Nehalem)

VMware provides support for Nehalem processors (Intel Microarchitecture) from this release.

Check out the complete windows release note after the jump

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