{"id":3370,"date":"2025-11-30T23:51:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T07:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=3370"},"modified":"2025-11-30T23:51:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T07:51:04","slug":"vmware-workstation-25-released-with-fixes-and-extras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=3370","title":{"rendered":"VMware &#8211; Workstation &#8217;25&#8217; Released, with Fixes and Extras.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VMware\/Broadcom have now released Workstation Pro version &#8216;<strong>25H2<\/strong>&#8216; and release notes are here:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/techdocs.broadcom.com\/us\/en\/vmware-cis\/desktop-hypervisors\/workstation-pro\/25H2\/release-notes\/vmware-workstation-pro-25h2-release-notes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/techdocs.broadcom.com\/us\/en\/vmware-cis\/desktop-hypervisors\/workstation-pro\/25H2\/release-notes\/vmware-workstation-pro-25h2-release-notes.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This version now compiles and runs OK with the latest kernel &#8211; 6.18.0 from <em>kernel.org<\/em> &#8211; without any patches, but some reports have been seen mentioning trouble compiling with 6.17.x kernels..\u00a0 \u00a0 I tested this on two different systems running 6.18.0, with no issues..\u00a0 \u00a0 If you need DKMS support, then there are patches available here:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/philipl\/vmware-host-modules\/tree\/workstation-25h2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/github.com\/philipl\/vmware-host-modules\/tree\/workstation-25h2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among the changes is one for Windows pre-Vista guests (I run XP\/SP2\u00a0 for a Minolta slide scanner) and the VMware Tools for these are no longer included by default, but can be downloaded as a separate winPreVista.iso image file, with the link given during the &#8216;Reinstall VMware Tools&#8217; dialogue..<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon..\u00a0 \u00a0November 30th 2025<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VMware\/Broadcom have now released Workstation Pro version &#8216;25H2&#8216; and release notes are here:\u00a0 https:\/\/techdocs.broadcom.com\/us\/en\/vmware-cis\/desktop-hypervisors\/workstation-pro\/25H2\/release-notes\/vmware-workstation-pro-25h2-release-notes.html This version now compiles and runs OK with the latest kernel &#8211; 6.18.0 from kernel.org &#8211; without any patches, but some reports have been seen mentioning trouble compiling with 6.17.x kernels..\u00a0 \u00a0 I tested this on two different systems running 6.18.0, with no <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=3370\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,19,25],"tags":[2778,2780,2781,2779,537],"class_list":["post-3370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-linux-2","category-opinion","category-vmware","tag-25h2","tag-dkms-add-on-available","tag-ok-with-latest-kernel","tag-tested-with-6-18-0","tag-vmware-workstation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3372,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370\/revisions\/3372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}