System Requirements​

• A compatible 64-bit x86/AMD64 CPU launched in 2011 or later.

• Please refer to the vendor's recommended processor requirements for specific Host Operating Systems (HOS):

  • For Microsoft-specific HOS, refer to the Microsoft documentation

  • For Linux-specific HOS, refer to the Linux Vendor-specific documentation

What's New​

• This release resolves CVE-2025-41236, CVE-2025-41237, CVE-2025-41238, and CVE-2025-41239.

  • For more information on these vulnerabilities and their impact on Broadcom products, see VMSA-2025-0013.

• This release resolves CVE-2025-2884.

  • Broadcom has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the moderate severity range.

Prior Releases

Features and Known Issues from prior releases of VMware Workstation 17 Pro are described in the release notes for each release. To view the release notes for a prior release, click the appropriate link:

• VMware Workstation 17.6.3 Pro Release Notes
• VMware Workstation 17.6.2 Pro Release Notes
• VMware Workstation 17.6.1 Pro Release Notes

Known Issues

During installation of Window 11 operating system, network connection fails

When installing Windows 11 Home or Pro edition on a virtual machine, the installer appears to be connected to a network, but continues to prompt for network connection with the following message: Let's connect you to a network. As a result, you cannot proceed with the next installation steps.

Workaround: Open the .VMX file of the guest operating system and add the following configuration property and value: mks.vk.gpuHeapSizeMB = "0".

Resolved Issues

vmx [msg.log.error.unrecoverable] VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (vmx)
vmx Exception 0xc0000005 (access violation) has occurred