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Re: Windows 11 guest with half the number of processors

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Player Discussions
‎08-09-2022 07:14 AM
‎08-09-2022 07:14 AM
No. I set these both entries to 2 for the VM with Windows 11. As bluefirestorm already wrote, we have always 1 socket, if numvcpus and cpuid.coresPerSocket are set to the same value. In my original ... See more...
No. I set these both entries to 2 for the VM with Windows 11. As bluefirestorm already wrote, we have always 1 socket, if numvcpus and cpuid.coresPerSocket are set to the same value. In my original post you can see in the pictures regarding Windows 11 that I had 2 sockets each with 1 logical processor. Host: Windows 8.1 Home Guest 1: Windows 10 Pro Guest 2: Windows 11 Pro In both VMs I set numvcpus and cpuid.coresPerSocket to 4. So I have in each VM 1 socket with 4 logical processors.

Re: Windows 11 guest with half the number of processors

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Player Discussions
‎08-06-2022 03:47 AM
‎08-06-2022 03:47 AM
@Mikero wrote: That will add 16 cores to the VM. 4 cores "per socket" x 4 vcpus (aka Sockets) You want 1 vCPU with 4 cores per socket if you want to give 4 cores to the VM.   I set the fol... See more...
@Mikero wrote: That will add 16 cores to the VM. 4 cores "per socket" x 4 vcpus (aka Sockets) You want 1 vCPU with 4 cores per socket if you want to give 4 cores to the VM.   I set the following values: numvcpus = "2" cpuid.coresPerSocket = "2" But then I have only 1 socket with 1 CPU with 2 logical processors. So setting both to 4 is the right one.

Re: Windows 11 guest with half the number of processors

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Player Discussions
‎08-05-2022 07:02 AM
‎08-05-2022 07:02 AM
Thank you for the explanation. This is in line with my observations.

Re: Windows 11 guest with half the number of processors

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Player Discussions
‎08-05-2022 03:23 AM
‎08-05-2022 03:23 AM
@Mikero wrote: That will add 16 cores to the VM. 4 cores "per socket" x 4 vcpus (aka Sockets) You want 1 vCPU with 4 cores per socket if you want to give 4 cores to the VM.   No. I didn't ... See more...
@Mikero wrote: That will add 16 cores to the VM. 4 cores "per socket" x 4 vcpus (aka Sockets) You want 1 vCPU with 4 cores per socket if you want to give 4 cores to the VM.   No. I didn't edit the vmx file for Windows 10 guest. There I have 4 processors and the entrties are: numvcpus = "4" cpuid.coresPerSocket = "4" I set the entries in vmx file for Windows 11 to the same values and I have 4 logical processors and 1 CPU. I tried to set cpuid.coresPerSocket = "1", but then I have only 2 logical processors. Then I tried to set numvcpus = "1", but then the setting window for the VM tells that I set only 1 processor for the VM. So I didn't start this VM and reset numvcpus to 4.  

Re: Windows 11 guest with half the number of processors

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Player Discussions
‎08-04-2022 10:01 AM
‎08-04-2022 10:01 AM
I found it: I added the 2nd line into the vmx file: numvcpus = "4" cpuid.coresPerSocket = "4"  

Re: Windows 11 guest with half the number of processors

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Player Discussions
‎08-04-2022 09:43 AM
‎08-04-2022 09:43 AM
Thank you, but in VMWare Workstation Player for Windows I don't have the possibility to set the number of cores per processor.

Windows 11 guest with half the number of processors

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Player Discussions
‎08-04-2022 09:22 AM
‎08-04-2022 09:22 AM
Since a few days I have the problem that in the Windows 11 guest system only 2 instead of the specified 4 processors are used. My notebook has 4 cores and 8 logical processors. 4 of them are assigned... See more...
Since a few days I have the problem that in the Windows 11 guest system only 2 instead of the specified 4 processors are used. My notebook has 4 cores and 8 logical processors. 4 of them are assigned to the VM running Windows 11. However, in the Windows 11 task manager only 2 logical processors are available. The Windows 11 system information lists 2 processors with 1 core each. However, the Windows 11 device manager shows 4. In the VM with Windows 10, the system information lists 1 processor with 4 cores. Host is Windows 8.1. (See pictures) What can be the cause of this problem?

Re: 2 montiors for the guest

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Player Discussions
‎06-14-2022 04:31 AM
‎06-14-2022 04:31 AM
I think I got it now. All monitors within the guest OS must be set to the same scaling factor. Then I have the guest OS on all monitors. And then I can set the scaling factor for one monitor to a dif... See more...
I think I got it now. All monitors within the guest OS must be set to the same scaling factor. Then I have the guest OS on all monitors. And then I can set the scaling factor for one monitor to a different value again.

Re: 2 montiors for the guest

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Player Discussions
‎06-12-2022 04:40 AM
‎06-12-2022 04:40 AM
Unfortunately "Cycle multiple monitors" seems to work only one time. Next time I start the guest system and click on "Cycle multiple monitors", something happens, but I don't have 2 monitors again. T... See more...
Unfortunately "Cycle multiple monitors" seems to work only one time. Next time I start the guest system and click on "Cycle multiple monitors", something happens, but I don't have 2 monitors again. The moues click response is on the wrong place or the mouse is not visible anymore. The guest system has only 1 monitor available, although the host has 2 monitors. If I click again on "Cycle multiple monitors" it toggles the status and the mouse response is on the right place. In vmware settings are 2 displays specified.

Re: 2 montiors for the guest

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Player Discussions
‎06-12-2022 04:04 AM
‎06-12-2022 04:04 AM
Thank you very much. If I click on "Cycle multiple monitors", then I have 2 monitors in guest system avaliable.

2 montiors for the guest

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Player Discussions
‎06-11-2022 07:10 AM
‎06-11-2022 07:10 AM
In VMWare Workstation 16 Player in session settings under Hardware / Display we have the option to specify the number of monitors. For test purposes within the guest system (Windows 11 Pro) I want t... See more...
In VMWare Workstation 16 Player in session settings under Hardware / Display we have the option to specify the number of monitors. For test purposes within the guest system (Windows 11 Pro) I want to have 2 monitors that are recognized as 2 individual monitors in the guest system. 2 physical monitors are available. But Windows 11 doesn't recongnize the 2nd monitor. Host system is Winodws 8.1 Home. In VMWare display settings I set 2 monitors. Is there any possibility to achieve that the guest has 2 monitors?

Re: Round corners get lost in Windows 11 with VMWare 16.2.3

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Player Discussions
‎04-06-2022 06:20 AM
‎04-06-2022 06:20 AM
I understand. Thank you for your explanation.

Re: Round corners get lost in Windows 11 with VMWare 16.2.3

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Player Discussions
‎04-06-2022 03:37 AM
‎04-06-2022 03:37 AM
I have added the two entries to the config.ini file. Now I have round window corners on Windows 11. You wrote: 'Disabling the ISBRenderer will make it like version 15.x (i.e. the mks thread is not i... See more...
I have added the two entries to the config.ini file. Now I have round window corners on Windows 11. You wrote: 'Disabling the ISBRenderer will make it like version 15.x (i.e. the mks thread is not in its own sandboxed process). The sandboxed ISBRenderer was introduced with version 16.x.'. Does this mean that VMWare now works as in version 15.x? Wouldn't it be better to install version 16.1.x instead of version 16.2.x and remove the two entries from the config.ini file?

Re: Round corners get lost in Windows 11 with VMWare 16.2.3

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Player Discussions
‎04-05-2022 03:51 AM
‎04-05-2022 03:51 AM
Thank you very much for your information. I tried both of your suggestions one after the other. Unfortunately, in both cases I did not get round corners and 3D acceleration.

Re: Round corners get lost in Windows 11 with VMWare 16.2.3

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Player Discussions
‎04-04-2022 04:53 AM
‎04-04-2022 04:53 AM
My host operating system is Windows 8.1 Home 64-bit. It is a notebook with AMD Radeon HD 7500/7600 series, which has 2 GB. I can't say anything about iGPU/dGPU. The host has 8 GB RAM, 5 GB I provided... See more...
My host operating system is Windows 8.1 Home 64-bit. It is a notebook with AMD Radeon HD 7500/7600 series, which has 2 GB. I can't say anything about iGPU/dGPU. The host has 8 GB RAM, 5 GB I provided for the Windows 11 VM. After starting the Windows 11 VM I get the following messages in th message box window: No 3D support ist available from the host. The 3D features of the virtual machine will be turned off. There is no relevant message in the mksSandbox.log file. In file vmware.log I can see the message '[msg.mks.no3D] No 3D support is available from the host. The 3D features of the virtual machine will be turned off.'. DxDiag output for the host: The DxDiag output for the host tells that 3D acceleration ist activated. So why do I get the message 'No 3D support ist available from the host.' ? Link for vmware.log: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AnJkahC5qjfigQWeCo0ghciKagaq 

Re: Round corners get lost in Windows 11 with VMWare 16.2.3

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Player Discussions
‎04-03-2022 05:36 AM
‎04-03-2022 05:36 AM
I didn't change the settings for this virtual machine. 'Accelerate 3D graphics' is activated.

Round corners get lost in Windows 11 with VMWare 16.2.3

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Player Discussions
‎04-03-2022 04:34 AM
‎04-03-2022 04:34 AM
With VMWare 16.1.2 windows in Windows 11 have round corners, with VMWare 16.2.3 they get lost. --------------------------------------------------- VMWare 16.2.3: square corners Tools 11.3.5 Direc... See more...
With VMWare 16.1.2 windows in Windows 11 have round corners, with VMWare 16.2.3 they get lost. --------------------------------------------------- VMWare 16.2.3: square corners Tools 11.3.5 DirectX 12 VMWare Virtual SVGA 3D Graphics VRAM: 0 MB Treiber Version: 8.17.3.5 Direct3D-DDI: 12 Funktionsebenen: 12_1, 12_0, 11_1, 11_0, 10_1, 10_0, 9_3, 9_2, 9_1 Treibermodell: WDDM 1.3 (?) ----------------------------------------- VMWare 16.2.3: square corners Tools 11.2.6 DirectX 12 VMWare Virtual SVGA 3D Graphics VRAM: 0 MB Treiber Version: 8.17.2.14 Direct3D-DDI: 12 Funktionsebenen: 12_1, 12_0, 11_1, 11_0, 10_1, 10_0, 9_3, 9_2, 9_1 Treibermodell: WDDM 1.3 ----------------------------------------- VMWare 16.1.2: round corners Tools 11.2.6 DirectX 12 VMWare Virtual SVGA 3D Graphics VRAM: 4 MB Treiber Version: 8.17.2.14 Direct3D-DDI: 11 Funktionsebenen: 11_0, 10_1, 10_0, 9_3, 9_2, 9_1 Treibermodell: WDDM 1.1 ----------------------------------------- VMWare 16.1.2: square corners no Tools  

Re: Setup size of Player version 16.2.0

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Player Discussions
‎10-16-2021 06:24 AM
‎10-16-2021 06:24 AM
Thank you. I only use Windows 10 in the player, my notebook is too old for Windows 11.

Re: Setup size of Player version 16.2.0

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Player Discussions
‎10-16-2021 02:37 AM
‎10-16-2021 02:37 AM
This could perhaps be the reason for the double size. However, the release notes so far only say: This release contains security updates and bug fixes. Some bugs were reported here for version 6.2.... See more...
This could perhaps be the reason for the double size. However, the release notes so far only say: This release contains security updates and bug fixes. Some bugs were reported here for version 6.2.0. Maybe I should wait for the next version.

Setup size of Player version 16.2.0

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Player Discussions
‎10-15-2021 07:13 AM
‎10-15-2021 07:13 AM
I am downloading VMWare Player 16.2.0, which became available yesterday. However, this is 584 MB in size. Version 16.1.2 is only 225 MB. Does anyone understand this? Why is the setup more than twice ... See more...
I am downloading VMWare Player 16.2.0, which became available yesterday. However, this is 584 MB in size. Version 16.1.2 is only 225 MB. Does anyone understand this? Why is the setup more than twice the size?
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