{"id":23533,"date":"2022-03-04T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=23533"},"modified":"2022-03-04T05:43:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T04:43:13","slug":"vmware-tools-12-neue-version-zum-1-3-2022-freigegeben","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2022\/03\/04\/vmware-tools-12-neue-version-zum-1-3-2022-freigegeben\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware Tools 12: New Version released (March 1. 2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/03\/vmware-tools-12-neue-version-zum-1-3-2022-freigegeben\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">German<\/a>]Quick note for users who use VMware products for virtualization. Blog reader Robert G. just emailed me to let me know (thanks for that) that VMware must have released a new build for VMware Tools 12.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vg04.met.vgwort.de\/na\/e47f2b90a6d147e29d8ccb37f3c9c7c0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>Robert wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>new version of VMWare Tools 12.0.<\/p>\n<p>unfortunately you get this only by chance resp. I didn't find the right RSS feed yet&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Evergreen had this file on offer earlier: VMware-tools-12.0.0-19345655-x86_64.exe<\/p>\n<p>My test system with Server2019 wanted to reboot although the latest VC++ Runtime was already installed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The VC++ Runtime is a prerequisite for VMware Tools 12.0 on Windows 7 SP1 or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and higher versions. The <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.vmware.com\/en\/VMware-Tools\/12.0\/rn\/VMware-Tools-1200-Release-Notes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">release notes<\/a> state that build 19345655 of VMware Tools 12 was released on 3\/1\/2022. Regarding the new features, it says:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support for managing Salt Minion through guest variables. See <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.vmware.com\/en\/VMware-Tools\/12.0.0\/com.vmware.vsphere.vmwaretools.doc\/GUID-373CD922-AF80-4B76-B19B-17F83B8B0972.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enable Salt Minion Using VMware Tools<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Added Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022 support.<\/li>\n<li>OpenSSL version is updated to 3.0.0.<\/li>\n<li>Support for gathering and publishing list of containers running inside Linux guests. See <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.vmware.com\/en\/VMware-Tools\/12.0.0\/com.vmware.vsphere.vmwaretools.doc\/GUID-82490A5C-014C-46D9-815A-18B1C9E5312C.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Configure ContainerInfo for Linux<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>his release fixes the CVE-2022-22943 vulnerability (see also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vmware.com\/security\/advisories\/VMSA-2022-0007.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VMSA-2022-0007<\/a>). Prerequisite for using VMware Tools 12 with windows.iso files is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows Server 2022<\/li>\n<li>Windows 11<\/li>\n<li>Windows Server 2019<\/li>\n<li>Windows Server 2016<\/li>\n<li>Windows 10<\/li>\n<li>Windows Server 2012 R2 with Microsoft's update <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/2919355\/windows-rt-8-1-windows-8-1-windows-server-2012-r2-update-april-2014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KB2919355<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Windows 8.1 with Microsoft's update\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/2919355\/windows-rt-8-1-windows-8-1-windows-server-2012-r2-update-april-2014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KB2919355<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Windows Server 2012<\/li>\n<li>Windows 8<\/li>\n<li>Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) with Microsoft's update <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/4474419\/sha-2-code-signing-support-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KB4474419<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) with Microsoft's update <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/4474419\/sha-2-code-signing-support-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KB4474419<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For darwin.iso files, Mac OS X version 10.11 and later is supported. For linux.iso files, one should consult <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.vmware.com\/en\/VMware-Tools\/10.3\/rn\/VMware-Tools-10324-Release-Notes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this VMware document<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]Quick note for users who use VMware products for virtualization. Blog reader Robert G. just emailed me to let me know (thanks for that) that VMware must have released a new build for VMware Tools 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1218],"tags":[195],"class_list":["post-23533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update","category-virtualization","tag-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}