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JimPanse
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Bought a brand new Workstation Pro and it already drives me nuts...

I have just bought a Windows Workstation 17 Pro licence after using VMWare Fusion for more then 10 years. My VMs on the MacBook Pro boot in seconds, but they take 3-5 minutes in the Workstation instance.

I've already tried a few tricks, like

- running as admin

- adding more RAM to the VMs (8GB)

- in the preferences I chose "fit all vm memory into reserved host RAM"

- I installed VMWare Workstation pro again

Especially Kali is very slow and hanging when it's initialing the RAM disk but also a fresh installed Ubutu takes more than three minutes.


my systeminfo:

OS Name: Microsoft Windows 11 Pro
OS Version: 10.0.22621 N/A Build 22621
OS Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation
OS Configuration: Standalone Workstation
OS Build Type: Multiprocessor Free
System Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
System Model: MS-7C75
System Type: x64-based PC
Processor(s): 1 Processor(s) Installed.
[01]: Intel64 Family 6 Model 165 Stepping 5 GenuineIntel ~800 Mhz
BIOS Version: American Megatrends Inc. 2.C0, 20.10.2021
Windows Directory: C:\WINDOWS
System Directory: C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device: \Device\HarddiskVolume1
System Locale: de;German (Germany)
Input Locale: en-us;English (United States)
Time Zone: (UTC+01:00) Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
Total Physical Memory: 32.690 MB
Available Physical Memory: 20.736 MB
Virtual Memory: Max Size: 34.738 MB
Virtual Memory: Available: 19.520 MB
Virtual Memory: In Use: 15.218 MB
Page File Location(s): C:\pagefile.sys
Domain: WORKGROUP
Hotfix(s): 4 Hotfix(s) Installed.
[01]: KB5020622
[02]: KB5019980
[03]: KB5017233
[04]: KB5019304
Network Card(s): 4 NIC(s) Installed.
[01]: Realtek PCIe 2.5GbE Family Controller
Connection Name: Ethernet
DHCP Enabled: Yes
DHCP Server: 192.168.2.1
IP address(es)
[01]: 192.168.2.169
[02]: fe80::12a4:bef2:82e9:6dc2
[03]: 2003:e8:ff01:7400:506d:d85c:46cd:4570
[04]: 2003:e8:ff01:7400:1f84:4754:8f71:811c
[02]: Viscosity Virtual TUN Adapter
Connection Name: lab_r00tk1d
Status: Hardware not present
[03]: VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for VMnet1
Connection Name: VMware Network Adapter VMnet1
DHCP Enabled: Yes
DHCP Server: 192.168.244.254
IP address(es)
[01]: 192.168.244.1
[02]: fe80::fa07:9272:e8de:1992
[04]: VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for VMnet8
Connection Name: VMware Network Adapter VMnet8
DHCP Enabled: Yes
DHCP Server: 192.168.153.254
IP address(es)
[01]: 192.168.153.1
[02]: fe80::29d3:a4b7:c4e:a4fb
Hyper-V Requirements: A hypervisor has been detected. Features required for Hyper-V will not be displayed.

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SonOfGomer
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Try disabling power throttling in your host OS

 

Edit: Ok I did not mean to necro this thread, forgot I came across it in a search and not on the recent posts page heh.  Hopefully you already fixed your issue.

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