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I am running Workstation Player 17.0.2 on a Lenovo Legion 7 Pro, Windows 11 Home, with an Intel i9 (13th Gen) and 32 GB of DDR5 (5600MHz) RAM, and 1 TB of SSD.   The VM (running Windows 10) freezes all processing (visual, sound, mouse, keyboard, everything) every few seconds as if it doesn't have enough resources.   The VM is assigned 2 cores, 4GB of RAM, and 512 MB of display memory.  I also tried it with more resources, same result.   This is the ONLY machine that is freezing like this, and the only difference I can see that is potentially meaningful is that this i9 has 16 E-Cores (factory-nerfed, undersized "efficiency" cores) that might be trying to shoulder the load of the VM errantly instead of leaving this heavy-lift to the actual P-Cores.   If I can't resolve this performance issue WITHOUT fully disabling all 16 E-Cores in the BIOS, then this laptop is going back to Costco ASAP.  VMWare Workstation is a mandatory part of my workflow.   Is there a way to disable eCores from interfering with VMWare?  Or am I looking in the wrong place?  The Windows installation on both the laptop and the VM guest is practically vanilla, and I have no issues like this on any other machine.

I am running Workstation Pro 16.2.3 build-19376536 on Windows 11 (21H2, 1000.22000.778.0) and I have tried everything I can find on the internet to get an XP guest to not have terrible, laggy, choppy audio, including: SetTimerService VMAudioBack (both modes) VMAudioFixTray pciSound.useSoundLib = "FALSE" Running WMP Disable Side-Channel Mitigations Install VMWare Tools in guest Absolutely nothing has worked, including combinations of the above.

I have a Windows 10 Pro host with a PCIE Gigabit NIC, running a Windows Server 2019 guest in VMWare Workstation Pro 15.5.7 (Build 17171714). I also have Comcast/Xfinity 400 Mbps internet. Using Google Speedtest: The host machine clocks 400-450 Mbps downstream and 10-12 Mbps upstream. The guest machine clocks only 100-150 Mbps downstream and struggles to reach 10 Mbps upstream. I've Googled this, and while I found similar situations, the only applicable solution I came up with was changing the virtual ethernet card to "e1000" or "vmxnet3" in the *.vmx file, but it was already set to "e1000e" and changing it made it worse (–50 Mbps or totally broken, respectively). Most solutions seemed to be specific to some sort of VMWare cloud/cluster implementation that I don't have. The guest OS reports the hardware as an "Intel 82574L Gigabit Network Connection" (Driver 12.15.22.6), but doing a speedtest in Google seems to suggest it's not living up to its nomenclature. Is there anything to be done for this?

Hi all, I am trying to move my VM guest installation, Windows Server 2019 Standard, off of my old gaming laptop and onto a new, dedicated server. Both machines are using the same VMWare Workstation Pro version, 15.5.7 (Build 17171714), and both machines are 64-bit Windows 10 Pro. Performance on the new machine is terrible - images disappear from the screen, pieces of text in strings are missing, and the system boots Windows with CPU usage maxed at times. Windows wallpaper disappears and blacks the screen out, dragging a window makes chunks of it reappear. The whole guest OS feels horribly unstable. It wasn't like this at all on the previous host. When I moved it over, Workstation did not do its usual thing of asking me if I "moved or copied" the VM, which seems suspicious as a likely cause. (Maybe?) After the move (but before firing it up, stupid me) I increased the memory available from 8GB > 32GB, and the CPU from 4 Processor / 1 Core > 4 Processor / 2 Core. Old Host: ASUS ROG G751J (2015) Gaming Laptop Intel Core i7-4710HQ @ 2.50GHz 2.49 GHz (4 Core) 16GB DDR3 RAM @ 1600 MHz (1T) NVidia GeForce GTX 970M (3GB) New Host: HP Z440 Tower Server Intel Xeon E5-2630 V3 @ 2.4GHz  2.4GHz (8 Core) 64GB DDR4 ECC RAM @ 1866 MHz (1T) NVidia NVS 310 (512MB) I honestly don't even know which direction to look. I've moved machines before, (even going from an AMD to an Intel), and I've never had these kinds of issues with Workstation (Pro or Player). Any ideas at all?  Did I do something bone-headed?