VMware workstation pro 16 with a new Windows 10 installed shut down very slow, more than 4 minutes.

[WalterWsm]

Hello 

any one here has experience of shutting down Windows 10 very slow on Vmware Workstation pro v16? 

My new system, both Vmware workstation Pro v16, Windows 10, and new laptop, get a shutting down problem, the windows 10 need more than 4 minutes to be shut down. how to fix it?

Walter

[fabio1975]

Ciao 

The problem can depend on various factors:
- HW of your laptop (for example imagine it is equipped with SSD disk)
- applications on the Windows 10 VM that slow down shutdown
- Virtual Hardware assigned to the Windows 10 VM

have you tried to analyze the performance of your laptop and what happens in the windows 10 VM?

[WalterWsm]

Hi Fabio

Thanks for reply

My new lap top is a workstation type, and has 3T SSD disk. 6 cores. 

The VM is a new one, so only Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat DC installed.

VM Hardware assigned to Windows 10 VM is 1 processor 2 cores. 4G Mem, 80G disk.  I tried increase those numbers (Processor/Cores) but didn't works.

I have a old VMware,V12, with windows 7 on it. I have copied it to this new VMware, v16. it works well and shut down normally. 

after compared with the new VMware with Windows 10, the only difference on VM setting is Firmware Type, the Old VMware is BIOS, the new one is UEFI. Does this matter with windows shutting down process?

I found that the new VMware with Windows 10 takes more than 4 minutes "thinking" then go to normal shut down process, such as "Shutting xx service", "Stop xx service", what the VM think about which taking 4 minutes?

Thanks in advance

Walter

[btmp]

Most likely this is related to an issue or setting in the Client VM and not related to the host. It could even be something as simple as updates being applied but you'd usually see something about that and it doesn't seem that you did.

One setting type option that springs to mind is that perhaps 'fast startup' (on Windows in the VM) is saving its file during that time. Aside from optionally disabling that I'd suggest opening up Windows Event Viewer and see if it's logging any errors during the shut down process to give you a better idea of what's going wrong (if anything) and go from there.

[WalterWsm]

Thanks btmp

I will ask IT guys from my company to help trace the shutting down process.

Regards

Walter