{"id":2901,"date":"2017-05-22T14:02:37","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T12:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=2901"},"modified":"2021-06-10T09:41:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T07:41:47","slug":"vmware-workstation-proplayer-version-12-5-6-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2017\/05\/22\/vmware-workstation-proplayer-version-12-5-6-released\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware Workstation Pro\/Player version 12.5.6 released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"VMware\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline\" alt=\"VMware\" src=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/VMware_thumb.jpg\" align=\"left\">VMware has released a maintenance update, shifting VMware Workstation and VMware Player to version 12.5.6. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170622195820\/http:\/\/pubs.vmware.com:80\/Release_Notes\/en\/workstation\/12\/player-1256-release-notes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Release-Notes<\/a> just mentions the following fixes and an issue:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Day 0 support of the Windows 10 Creators Update (Version 1703):<\/em>&nbsp; End users can create virtual machines with the Windows 10 Creators Update or by installing VMware Workstation 12 Pro on a Windows 10 Creators Update operating system.&nbsp;\n<li>\n<p><em>Bug fixes and security updates<\/em>. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is one know issue: After upgrading VMware Tools, the VMware shared folder drive is shown as disconnected with a red \"X\" in the guest OS. <\/p>\n<p>After upgrading VMware Tools to version 10.1.5 or 10.1.6 and rebooting Windows, Windows Explorer shows the VMware Shared Folder drive as disconnected with a red \"X\". Workaround: Refresh the connection by clicking the drive and accessing it as normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VMware has released a maintenance update, shifting VMware Workstation and VMware Player to version 12.5.6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[851,850],"class_list":["post-2901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows","tag-vmware-player-12-5-6","tag-vmware-workstation-12-5-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901","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=2901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}