topic Re: To disable mitigations in VMware Workstation Player Discussions

To disable mitigations

RickGCon — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 02:24:53 GMT

I installed vmware workstation player 16. To disable mitigations it tells me to go to Options, Advanced, and there to uncheck it. But when I go to Options I don't have Advanced (see bellow). What to do?

Re: To disable mitigations

wila — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 10:07:17 GMT

Hi,

See here:

https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Player/Poor-performance-after-update-with-message-about-side-channel/m-p/2811455/highlight/true#M35855

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Wil

Re: To disable mitigations

RickGCon — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 23:42:02 GMT

I added

ulm.disableMitigations="TRUE"

To the .vmx and that error went away.

But I still have this other error when I try to Pause the VM:

“VMware Player unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0)

Exception 0xc0000005 (access violation) has occurred.

A log file is available in "D:\XP-DOS2\vmware.log". “

And after this I get this error:

“Error while suspending: Transport (VMDB) error -14: Pipe connection has been broken.”