When running Vmware Workstation, without any other app running, CPU and Speed Utilisation seems to be capped to approx 30% Utilisation at all times.
Is there a way I can change or remove this limitation so Workstation uses more of the CPU when required?
Note: This utilisation does not change whether I open up 1 or more VM's in Workstation.
You can see an image of the utilisation at: https://imgur.com/1oMOqEr.jpg
As soon as utilisation shows i.e. 34%, it drops back below 30% so it looks like there's some 30% limit.
I'm currently running Vmware Workstation on a Windows 10 Pro Version - OS Build: 19041.450
When I took the screen shot, I had 3 VM's running.
Looks like I resolved the issue.
Incase anyone else is having the same issue, following was how I solved it.
After downloading the Dell Power Manager application, I was able to see that the Thermal Management was set to Cool. When I changed that to Ultra Performance or Optimized, the CPU usage went up.
Host hardware specification?
VM hardware configuration?
Host Hardware
Dell XPS 15 9570 Core i9 - Disabled Hyperthreading
Processor : Intel Core i9-8950HK 6 x 2.9 - 4.8 GHz, Coffee Lake-H
Graphics adapter : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q - 4096 MB, Core: 1290 MHz, Memory: 7008 MHz, GDDR5, 397.93, Optimus
Memory : 32768 MB, PC4-21300, 19-19-19-43, Dual-Channel
VM Hardware
VM1 - Windows 10
Memory: 11.3GB
Total Processor cores: 6 (Number of processors: 2, Number of cores per processor: 3)
Hard Disk(SCSI): 100GB
VM2 - Ubuntu (Linux)
Memory: 7GB
Total Processor cores: 6 (Number of processors: 2, Number of cores per processor: 3)
Hard Disk(SCSI): 60GB
VM2 - Ubuntu (Linux)
Memory: 3GB
Total Processor cores: 2 (Number of processors: 2, Number of cores per processor: 1)
Hard Disk(SCSI): 40GB
Looks like I resolved the issue.
Incase anyone else is having the same issue, following was how I solved it.
After downloading the Dell Power Manager application, I was able to see that the Thermal Management was set to Cool. When I changed that to Ultra Performance or Optimized, the CPU usage went up.