When you import an OVA file of a virtual machine running the Datacenter version of Windows Server, the network adapter failed to be configured correctly. With IPv6 disabled on the host, the Linux version of Workstation is now able to share virtual machines. Remotely retrieving the IP address of an Ubuntu virtual machine with an IPv6 address assigned failed unless an IPv4 address was also assigned to the virtual machine. To improve application startup performance, the data being collected as part of the optional User Experience Improvement Program will no longer be aggregated on every launch of Workstation. A more comprehensive error handling code has been added to prevent this problem from occurring. After disconnecting certain USB devices from a virtual machine, Workstation would prevent devices from being reconnected without restarting the virtual machine. Occasionally, certain elements in the Windows 8 user interface were incorrectly displayed. Streaming a virtual machines has been fixed. vmdk file as a drive by right-clicking the file in File Explorer has been restored. For host systems with more than 4GB of memory, Workstation will use more of the available memory to run virtual machines.

The Workstation plug-in for Visual Studio has been updated to work with Visual Studio 2012. Several security vulnerabilities have been addressed, including updating third party libraries. If you run Windows 8 hosts on IvyBridge processors, VMware strongly recommends that you update your installation of Workstation. When powering on a virtual machine with Binary Translation on a SMEP-capable CPU, Workstation no longer causes the host to reset. The following issues are resolved in this release of VMware Workstation: Solaris 11 has been added to guest OS list. Support for Ubuntu 12.10 as a host and guest. This release of Workstation 9.0.1 adds the following new features and support:

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