Vmware 17 Pro very slow on Windows 11 22H2

[Ferko]

Hi,

I decided to finally upgrade to Windows 11 22H2 on my host machine. Upgrade was smooth and all seems to be running fine until I started Vmware Workstation Pro 17. All my Windows guests booted very slow and they even froze so I had to shut them down. Restart did not help and what was running smoothly before was extremely slow and unresponsive. I had to downgrade my host machine Windows back as I did not find any workaround. I found something mentioning Microsoft introduced its own Hypervisor or something but there were just some questionable workaround to uninstall/disable something.

ANyone else is experiencing the same on the latest Workstation 17 Pro and Windows 11 22H2?

Thanks. 

[maksym007]

Probably HyperV is installed/pre-configured. 

In order to turn off Hyper-V mode, run the following command at the host in windows command-line with Administrator privileges:

bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off

Reboot the system to activate your changes.

If you want to go back to Hyper-V mode again, then you can enable it like this:

bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto

Note that you also might have to disable Memory Integrity.

Windows Security -> Device Security -> Core Isolation details

[TomBrody]

I have the same issues - it did not fixed the problem on my computer.

[VIRTUALFLARE1]

Hello,

Am facing the same issue with VMware workstation 17. Looks like it has some serious issues and a bug fix MUST be released.

Any operations we do with 4 or more VMs running will spike the CPU immediately to 100%. This will result in VM hangs.

My specs: 

Running the base OS as Windows Server 2016 Datacenter with latest update, 160 GB RAM and many CPUs.

I hope VMware releases a patch or an update for this. 

[andrezanna]

Buddy here is right. This solved my issue.

[maksym007]

Windows Server especially might experience such issues. 

[giopebero]

Same here. Win 11 22H2 + VMware 17 Pro. My Win 10 VM is very unresponsive. Even clicks have a 2 seconds delay. Very strange.

[Cloedu72]

I have exactly the same issue. Reverted  now to 21H2 and everything works fine.

- disabled core isolation and HyperV

[v0id1]

In my opinion disabling security features is not a solution, especially when computers are managed centrally and there is no option to turn it off. VMware team should work with Microsoft to solve this issue.

[giopebero]

If you are experiencing very slow performances with Alder Lake CPUs, I solved the issue using

powercfg /powerthrottling disable /path "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation\x64\vmware-vmx.exe"

ref. https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Workstation-16pro-on-alder-lake-system/td-p...

[Ferko]

Vmware has just released Workstation Pro 17.0.1. Has anyone, experiencing the same issue with W11 22H2, tried if it is still so slow?

Thanks.

[jshu1]

It's still slow.  I'm checking for updates on Windows and VMware everyday hoping they found a fix.  No luck.  VMware doesn't make it easy to contact them for support either.  I'm not happy that I can't create a ticket with them without paying for it.

[jshu1]

Holy moly, the power configuration change helped...   I'm dumbfounded.  It's still not like before the Windows 11 update, but it's a significant improvement.  I'll test it out some more and see how it goes.

[Buggin]

This solved my issue. Workstation 17.0.1 was previously unusable on my Win11 Pro (Version 10.0.22621 Build 22621) running with a i7-12700H. Now it appears to be working correctly. Thanks @giopebero!

[noxware]

that helps me perfect.

Performance from ssd Nvme is now 4 to 5 times higher !

Thanks

[SteveKK]

My Windows 11 VM running under VM Workstation Pro v17 on a Windows 11 guest had been painfully slow to use. I had already applied the settings suggested by maksym007, but it was still just as slow. Adjusting the power throttling setting as suggested by giopebero has made a huge difference to the performance.

I would suggest applying both of these changes to see if it fixed you performance issues.

Regards,
Steve

[giopebero]

I wouldn't change Hyper-V settings, I fixed with the power throttling only. Obviously waiting for an official fix by vmware team.Regards.

[SteveKK]

Having tried Hyper-V to see if that performed better, I'll be sticking to VM Workstation as it is so much more functional. I needed to disable Hyper-V on my system to get the Intel VT-x/EPT enables for my VMs. I will not miss Hyper-V functionality.

Regards,

Steve

[Crasucks]

I am running Win11 and Vmware 17.01,  my VM's are useless now.  I wish I statyed with VMware 14.  

I can no longer develop using my VM's

[Crasucks]

I have, my Win11 VMware Workstation pro 17.01 is uselss due to being too slow. I can no longer develop on my VM's. I am thinking of scrapping VMware if I can't get this fixed.