Flexbeta reports a new VMware Workstation 5 beta build (11888) is available. Many fixes are in place and a lot of components are updated:
– Issues solved in beta 11888, 2005.01.07
PR 55642: Virtual machines fail to power off cleanly (updated 2005.01.07)
Under some circumstances, a virtual machine would fail to power off, either appearing to hang or displaying a blank screen. This was fixed in build 11888.
PR 57020: Failures When Performing Multiple File Drag-and-Drop Operations (updated 2005.01.07)
Using drag-and drop-to copy multiple files from host to guest could cause unexpected behavior, such as a virtual machine crashing or VMware Workstation freezing. This was fixed in build 11888.
PR 56435: Virtual Machine Crashes When Installing Windows Server 2003 SP1 RC1 (updated 2005.01.07)
When upgrading a virtual machine from Windows 2003 to the latest release candidate of Windows 2003 SP1, the virtual machine process crashed on the subsequent reboot. This was fixed in build 11888.
PR 56469: Unrecoverable Error During Virtual Machine Power Operations (updated 2005.01.07)
Virtual machines configured with a large amount of memory (usually more than 1 GB) could crash during power operations. The logged error message was:
ASSERT C:/ob/bora-11571/bora/devices/mainmem/mainMemHosted.c:216
This was fixed in build 11888.
PR 56479: Panic When Using CTRL-ALT-DEL to Reboot a Virtual Machine (updated 2005.01.07)
Under some circumstances, using CTL-ALT-DEL or CTL-ALT-INS from within a virtual machine would cause the virtual machine to crash. The logged error message was:
MONITOR PANIC: VMM fault
This was fixed in build 11888.
PR 56693: Virtual Machine Crashes on Power Off (updated 2005.01.07)
Under some circumstances, a virtual machine in full screen mode might crash at power off. The logged error message was:
ASSERT /build/mts/release/bora-11608/bora/mks/main/xinfo.c:501
This was fixed in build 11888.
PR 56907: Virtual Machine Crashes During Disk Operation (updated 2005.01.07)
Under rare circumstances, it was possible for a virtual machine to crash while performing disk operations. The logged error message was:
MONITOR PANIC: ASSERT vmcore/vmm/cpu/dt.c:2375
This was fixed in build 11888.
PR 49964: glibc and NPTL-based Threading Model (Fedora Core 3 Host Compatibility) (updated 2005.01.07)
Fedora Core 3 is the first widely used Linux distribution to adopt a change to glibc to use an NPTL based threading model. This model was incompatible with VMware Workstation, and could cause Workstation to core dump when running on such a host. We have modified Workstation to work correctly with the new glibc as of build 11888. (Note: Fedora is not a supported host operating system in VMware Workstation 5.0).