VMware Workstation 10.0.2 Build 1744117 - ZWT

VMware Workstation 10 delivers best-in-class Windows 8 support, and innovative
new features that transform the way technical professionals work with virtual
machines, whether they reside on their PCs or on private enterprise clouds.

*New Operating System Support
Support has been added for:
-Windows 8.1
-Windows 8.1 Enterprise
-Windows Server 2012 R2
-Ubuntu 13.10
As well as for the latest Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat and OpenSUSE releases.

*VMware Hardware Version 10
This version of VMware Workstation includes VMware hardware Version 10 and is
compatible with vSphere 5.5. Hardware versions introduce new virtual hardware
functionality and new features while enabling VMware to run legacy operating
systems in our virtual machines. New features included in this hardware
version:

*16 vCPUs
Virtual machines can now run with up to 16 virtual CPUs. This enables very
processor intensive applications to be run in a virtual machine.
Note: Running virtual machines with 16 vCPUs requires that both your host
and guest operating system support 16 logical processors. Your physical
machine must have at least 8 cores with hyper-threading enabled to power
on a virtual machine with this configuration.

*8 Terabyte Disks
Virtual machines can now include virtual disks greater than 2 Terabytes.
Given the limitations of most operating systems to boot from disks greater
than 2 Terabytes, These large disks are most useful as secondary drives for
file storage.

Note: To use a disk greater than 2TB for a boot disk, your guest operating
system would need to boot using EFI in order to read a GPT formatted disk
which is required to access all of the sectors on a disk of this size.
Additionally, the Buslogic controller is not capable of supporting a disk
greater than 2TB.

Extra murphy78 note: To enable EFI boot mode, edit the .VMX file and add:
firmware = "efi"
Alternatively, to set it back to bios (legacy) boot, change to:
firmware = "bios"

10.0.2 Fixes Changelog:
The following issues are resolved in this release of VMware Workstation.

Better audio performance and compatibility with certain USB audio/video devices.
The compatibility and performance of USB audio and video devices with virtual machines has been improved.

USB devices can be connected to the Linux RHEL 5 guest operating system.
Resolved an issue that prevents a USB device from being connected to Linux RHEL 5 guest operating system.

Windows 8.1 Update 1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 are supported as guest operating system through easy install.
Easy installation option supports Windows 8.1 Update 1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 as a guest operating system.

OpenSUSE 13.1 is officially supported as a host operating system.
OpenSUSE 13.1 is now supported as a host operating system.

Blueray drives can burn CDs when connected to the virtual machine.
Resolved an issue causing burning CDs with Blueray drives to fail while connected to the virtual machine.

Using Microsoft Word and Excel in unity mode no longer produces a beep.
Resolved an issue that caused using Microsoft Word and Excel in unity mode causes a beep.

The UAC dialog of the Windows 8 virtual machine no longer causes the host application windows to be blanked out on Linux Host.
Resolved an issue causing host application windows to be blanked out in the UAC dialog on the Linux host of the Windows 8 virtual machine.

The sound card can be automatically added to a virtual machine on a Linux host at power up.
Resolved an issue that prevented the Sound Card from being automatically added to the VM when powering on the virtual machine on a Linux host.

Windows 8.1 guest operating system no longer display a black screen when launching Metro style applications from the launch menu.
Resolved an issue that could cause a Windows 8.1 guest operating system to display a black screen when launching Metro style applications in the launch menu.

Hotkeys can be used in the Preference dialog in KVM mode.
Resolved a hotkey conflict in the Preference dialog of the KVM mode.

Improved compatibility of GL renderer with new Nvidia drivers.
Resolved a compatibility issue of GL renderer with some new Nvidia drivers.

Improved graphics quality with Solidworks applications.
Resolved graphics errors with for Solidworks applications.

Virtual machines imported from a physical PC no longer crash on startup.
Resolved an issue causing virtual machines imported from a physical PC to crash on startup.

Reading and writing to a file using two threads with a shared folder has been improved.
Resolved an issue about shared folder when the user read and write file using two threads.

Linux virtual machines access updated contents when using shared folders.
Resolved an issue that caused Linux virtual machines to see stale file contents when using shared folders.

Improved performance of the virtual machine using the E1000e adapter.
Resolved the virtual machine performance issues when using the E1000e adapter.

Workstation now launches on Ubuntu 14.04.
Resolved an issue preventing Workstation from starting on Ubuntu 14.04.