Well I don't think they should be able to remove features like that in a dot release 
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I bought workstation pro with the virtual printer feature listed and I was using it, and now they push 17.5 which has security fixes and a fix for the bridge networking among other things and they remove a feature they sold me as part of Workstation pro 17... That is not right, they can remove it in VMWare 18 which would be a different product, sold with a different feature set, but not in a dot release.
Basically the choice is, live with the security holes in your system or loose a feature... they are asking for lawsuits!
VMWare is really going down the drain, they have absolutely zero ethics...
The big problem as I see it is that you have to install a printer in every single VM Workstation application - which in my case I have over 30 different applications!
Also there is another issue coming up - in older VMWare applications with an old operating system - like Win 3.1 or XP, I still was able to use the printer that was installed under the main system with 64bit drivers. That ship is now sailed, and those older system - which I still have to use for some applications - have no printer capability anymore 
But the thing that really gets me is the fact that the system updated to 17.5 when I rebooted my machine & started VMWare, without any big warnings that you will loose a major feature. It took me hours to figure out whats happening and finally had to uninstalled VMWare all together and reinstalled Version 17.
I mean - I am a customer since more than 10 years and use VMWare for a long time plus upgraded & paid regularly when a new version came out, but this was a turning point!
And this happened while I was on a customers production site - Thanks VMWare!
