When running on a Windows host with Hyper-V enabled, VMs might quit unexpectedly

When running on а Windows host with Hyper-V enabled, Workstation Pro 25H2 does not support nested virtualization. Virtual machines configured with "vhv.enable = TRUE" might possibly report "unrecoverable error". This issue is resolved in this release. When powering on a VM that is configured to use nested virtualization on a host with Hyper-V, an error message is displayed.

On Windows hosts, guest operating systems sometimes appear to be slow and unresponsive to input

When receiving input by the guest operating system, VMware Workstation on Windows hosts might fail to redraw the guest screen, creating the perception of the guest operating system being slow. Therefore, when updating visual elements, the guest operating systems might seem unresponsive to user input or the guest screen seems to lag. This issue is fixed in this release.

When moving the mouse cursor between monitors in full screen mode, the mouse cursor disappears

When using Workstation Pro on a Windows host that has focus follows mouse enabled and a virtual machine is in full screen mode with multiple monitors, moving the mouse cursor between monitors results in the mouse cursor disappearing. This issue is resolved in this release.

Vulkan presentation mode might cause several bugs in some Windows host hardware configurations

VMware Workstation Pro 25H2 enabled a new Vulkan presentation mode that exhibited several bugs in some host hardware configurations, for example:

• When powering on a virtual machine, the display of the Windows host might permanently dim until the host is rebooted.

• When entering full screen mode on a Windows host, the toolbar is no longer visible.

This issue is resolved in this release and the Vulkan and DirectX 12 presentation modes are deactivated by default.

On Windows hosts, full screen mode displays a 1 pixel white border around the screen of the guest operating system

This issue is resolved in this release.

After rebooting a host, virtual machines with Windows XP or Windows Vista operating systems that have 3D graphics acceleration enabled display a black screen or a low-resolution screen without full color support

This issue is resolved in this release.

When attempting USB pass-through on Windows hosts, the USB devices might not be listed, intermittently disconnect, or fail to connect

USBArbitrator might occur and the enumerated device information is not available. This issue is fixed in this release.