VMware Tools 12.0.5 Release Notes
Introduction
VMware Tools | 24 MAY 2022 | 19716617 Check for additions and updates to these release notes. |
What's New
- This release resolves CVE-2022-22977.For more information on this vulnerability and its impact on VMware products, see https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0015.html.
- Updated OpenSSL version to 3.0.2.
- Updated libxml2 version to 2.9.13.
Earlier Releases of VMware Tools
For earlier releases of VMware Tools, see the VMware Tools Documentation page.
Before You Begin
- VMware Tools 12.0.5 supports the following guest operating systems:
- windows.isosupports Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and later.
- Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable package is a prerequisite for installing VMware Tools for Windows 12.0.5 and ships with the VMware Tools 12.0.5 download package. While preparing a target Windows guest for installation, VMware Tools runs the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Package installer which checks for a more recent version on the target guest. If the target guest has a more recent version already present, the package does not install.The prerequisite version for a 32-bit Windows guest is Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributable (x86) version 14.29.30133.0. The prerequisite versions for a 64-bit Windows guest 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 12.0.5 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 12.0.5. Refer to Microsoft's update KB2977003 for the 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 update. For more information, see KB2919355.
- Windows 8.1 with Microsoft update. For more information, see KB2919355.
- Windows Server 2012
- Windows 8
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) with Microsoft's update. For more information, see KB4474419.
- Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) with Microsoft's update. For more information, see KB4474419.
- darwin.isosupports Mac OS X versions 10.11 and later.
- For more information aboutlinux.iso, see VMware Tools 10.3.24 Release Notes.
- For more information aboutsolaris.iso, see VMware Tools 10.3.10 Release Notes.
- VMware Tools ISO images are frozen for some end of life guest operating systems. Some ISO images are not included with ESXi in thetools-lightVIB. For more information, see the VMware Tools Documentation page. All VMware Tools ISO images are available for download from https://support.broadcom.com.
- VMware Tools for Windows: 32-bit and 64-bit installer executable (.exe) files are available for download. These files are provided for easier access and installation of VMware Tools in Windows guest operating systems.
For the resolution on incompatibility and general guidelines, while upgrading ESXi hosts to ESXi 6.5 or later, and using earlier versions of Horizon View Agent, refer to the knowledge base article:
Internationalization
VMware Tools 12.0.5 is available in the following languages:
- English
- French
- German
- Spanish
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Simplified Chinese
- Traditional Chinese
Product Support Notice
The Windows pre-Vista iso image for VMWare Tools is no longer packaged with ESXi. The Windows pre-Vista iso image is available for download by users who require it. For download information, see the Product Download page.
End of Feature Support Notice
- VMware Tools ships PVSCSI floppy images and PVSCSI drivers in Tools ISO for OS installation on a PVSCSI disk controller. The PVSCSI floppy images for supporting OS versions Vista, Server 2008, and Windows 7 will be removed in the next release of VMware Tools.
- The tar tools (linux.iso) and OSPs shipped with VMware Tools 10.3.x release will continue to be supported. However, releases after VMware Tools 10.3.5 will only include critical and security fixes. No new feature support will be provided for tar tools (linux.iso) and OSPs. Use open-vm-tools for those operating systems that support open-vm-tools. For more information about open-vm-tools, see KB 2073803.
Compatibility Notes
- Starting with VMware Tools version 10.2.0, Perl script-based VMware Tools installation for FreeBSD has been discontinued. FreeBSD systems are supported only through the open-vm-tools packages directly available from FreeBSD package repositories. FreeBSD packages for open-vm-tools 10.1.0 and later are available from FreeBSD package repositories.
Guest Operating System Customization Support
The Guest OS Customization Support Matrix provides details about the guest operating systems supported for customization.
Interoperability Matrix
The VMware Product Interoperability Matrix provides details about the compatibility of current and earlier versions of VMware Products.
Installation and Upgrades for this release
VMware Tools can be downloaded from the Product Download page.
The steps to install VMware Tools vary depending on your VMware product and the guest operating system you have installed. For general steps to install VMware Tools in most VMware products, see General VMware Tools installation instructions (1014294). To set up productLocker to point to the shared datastore, see KB 2004018.
This release provides packages to upgrade VMware Tools 11.2.5 or later deployments using GuestStore.
For instructions to install, upgrade, and configure VMware Tools, see the VMware Tools Documentation page.
Windows Guest Drivers Installed by VMware Tools
VMware Tools 12.0.5 supports the following driver versions on a Windows guest operating system.
Drivers
|
VMware Tools 12.0.5
|
Hardware Drivers |
|
efifwfromhost.bin |
1.0.0.0 |
pvscsi.sys |
|
vmaudio.sys |
5.10.0.3506 |
vmci.sys |
9.8.18.0 |
vmmouse.sys |
12.5.12.0 |
vmusbmouse.sys |
12.5.12.0 |
vmxnet3.sys |
1.9.5.0 |
vm3dmp.sys |
9.17.01.0002 |
Software Drivers |
|
vmhgfs.sys |
11.0.44.0 |
vmmemctl.sys |
7.5.7.0 |
vmrawdsk.sys |
1.1.7.0 |
vnetWFP.sys |
12.0.5.0 |
vsepflt.sys |
12.0.5.0 |
vsock.sys |
9.8.19.0 |
Security DLL |
|
vmwsu.dll |
2.5.1.0 |