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WS Pro 15.5.5+ FreeBSD console slowdown

Hello everybody.

How to fix VGA console slowdown in FreeBSD guest, and also in guest VM "CMOS Setup" and in FreeDOS guest?

In W10 1909 + WS Pro 15.5.2 host was all correct.

Problem begun in W10 2004 + WS Pro 15.5.5 Host and was not disappear in WS Pro 15.5.6.

In other guests (GNU/Linux, W10) there are all correct.

Host Info:

VMWare: Product: VMware® Workstation 15 Pro Version: 15.5.6 build-16341506

OS: W10 Pro ver 2004 build 19041.329 x86_64 Russian

VGA: NVidia Quadro K2200 4GB Video RAM, driver ver: 430.86

FreeBSD Guest Info:

VGA console driver:

# dmesg | grep VT | tail -1

vtvga0: <VT VGA driver> on motherboard

also:

# cat /boot/loader.conf | grep vga

hw.vga.textmode=0

OS Kernel version:

# uname -a

FreeBSD my-cool-host.my-cool-domain 12.1-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE-p6 GENERIC  amd64

OS Version:

# freebsd-version

12.1-RELEASE-p6

VMWare Tools:

# pkg info open-vm-tools | grep ^Version

Version        : 11.0.1_3,2

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Infra3600
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UP!

FreeBSD part of question solved by reinstall FreeBSD guest in VM UEFI boot mode.

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