VMware Tools 12.3.0 released, adds support for running Windows ARM virtual machines on Apple-powered Macs

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VMware Tools is a set of utilities installed in the operating system of a virtual machine. VMware Tools enhances the performance of virtual machines and enables easy host-guest interaction within VMware products.

Full 3D acceleration on Windows 11 for Arm

Introduction

VMware Tools is a collection of services and components that implement multiple functions across VMware products, enabling users to better manage and seamlessly interact with guest operating systems.

VMware Tools Lifecycle Management provides a simplified and scalable way to install and upgrade VMware Tools. It contains several functional and driver-related enhancements and supports new guest operating systems.

Open VM Tools (open-vm-tools) is an open source implementation (sysin) of VMware Tools for Linux guest operating systems. See GitHub for the latest copy of the Open VM Tools source code .

For vSphere deployments, VMware provides Operating System Specific Packages (OSPs) as the packaging and distribution mechanism for VMware Tools. See VMware Operating System Specific Packages for details .

new features

12.3.0

Updated OpenSSL version to 3.0.8.
Updated libxml2 version to 2.10.4.
Updated glib version to 2.71.1.
Updated libffi version to 3.3.
This release resolves CVE-2023-20900.
From VMware Tools 12.3.0 version onwards, workload notifications for NSX distributed malware prevention is enabled.
VMware Tools 12.3.0 version provides support for Windows Arm VMs running on VMware Fusion on Apple silicon.

System Requirements

VMware Tools 12 upports the following guest operating systems:

windows.iso supports Windows 7 SP1 or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and later.
- The Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable package is a prerequisite for installing VMware Tools for Windows 12.0.0 and ships with the VMware Tools 12.0.0 download package. While preparing a Windows guest for installation, VMware Tools runs the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Package installer which checks for the presence of a more recent version on the guest. If the guest has a more recent version already present, the package does not install.
  For a 32-bit Windows guest, the prerequisite version is Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributable (x86) version 14.29.30133.0.
  For a 64-bit Windows guest, the prerequisite versions are Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributable (x86) version 14.29.30133.0 and Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributable (x64) version 14.29.30133.0.
- Installing or upgrading to VMware Tools 12.0.0 is not supported for Windows versions that do not meet the prerequisite. Customers should continue to use VMware Tools 10.2.x or older until they can patch or update their Windows OS to meet the prerequisites for VMware Tools 12.0.0. Refer to Microsoft’s update KB2977003 for latest supported Visual C++ downloads.
- Windows OS level prerequisites
  - Windows Server 2022
  - Windows 11
  - Windows Server 2019
  - Windows Server 2016
  - Windows 10
  - Windows Server 2012 R2 with Microsoft’s update KB2919355
  - Windows 8.1 with Microsoft’s update KB2919355
  - Windows Server 2012
  - Windows 8
  - Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) with Microsoft’s update KB4474419.
  - Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) with Microsoft’s update KB4474419.
darwin.iso supports Mac OS X versions 10.11 and later.
For details on linux.iso, refer to VMware Tools 10.3.24 Release Notes.
For details on solaris.iso, refer to VMware Tools 10.3.10 Release Notes.

download link

VMware Tools 12.3.0 for Windows x86 & arm

Baidu network disk link: https://sysin.org/blog/vmware-tools-12/
Added support for Windows Arm VM running on VMware Fusion on Apple chips.