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I just created a brand new VM. It's running extraordinarily slow. I'm not running Hyper-V on the host, and I have plenty of free RAM available. The Task Manager on both, host and guest, are displaying mediocre workload. What is causing this extreme sluggishness of the VM? Attached please find the VMs log file. Perhaps this can shed some light to the issue?

I installed VMware Workstation to a small Microsoft Surface Go tablet with only 128 GB SSD built in. So, I need all the free space that I can get. In order to keep a VM's footprint small, I selected the VM's "Clean up disks after shutting down the virtual machine" option. This, however, becomes a pain in the arm when trying to close the WMware Workstation application window or when shutting down Windows. That's because there is no progress indicator telling me how much of the optimization has finished and how long i have to wait before continuing. There's even no indicator that's telling me that optimization has completed. Please, VMware, add one or more progress bars to the VMware Workstation status bar, indicating progress and status of optimization.

I disabled time synchronization in VM settings and disabled using a time server in the Windows 10x64 guest. However, when I restart the VM, it's using the current time. How can I keep the VM from catching up with current time?    

I can't help it, but I'm pretty sure my Windows 10 guests are all running extremely slow. Sure, I have no means to measure it, yet I have a strong feeling that they are all running quite slow and clumsy compared to their performance 1 – 2 years ago. Currently, I'm running VMware Workstation 16.2.4 build-20089737 on three different machines (all running Windows 10 Enterprise as host OS). Two of these machines I'm running for a number of years, so their performance shouldn't have changed. The third one is a new, top-notch HP notebook. Is anyone here sharing the same observation? Does anyone have a clue or remedy for this?

I'm making a strange observation whenever I try to install software in a Windows VM: Installers take their time, so I'm regularly switching VMware Workstation to Windowed mode and give focus to, e.g., the Firefox browser window in my Windows host for browsing. Sometimes the host windows then fully cover the VMware Workstation application window (I have one application window, one display screen). Many times when I do that and then close or minimize the host application windows after a minute or two (… or five) I notice that the installer application in the guest OS doesn't progress at all. The progress bar just doesn't move. The throbbing animation of the installer's progress bar still is throbbing, the guest OS is still working … but no progress is made by the installer. When I move the mouse pointer to the VM window and click into the guest OS, so the guest OS will be given HID focus, the installer application then continues to progress. This is also true when I'm updating VMware Tools in the guest. So, this strange observation of mine can easily be reproduced. I'm not quite sure what actually causes the installer in the guest not to progress any further when I'm leaving the guest OS and fully cover the VMware Workstation application window. Yet, this behaviour becomes quite annoying when I set-up new VMs, because I'm unable to finish other tasks in parallel. Anyone have any idea what's causing this strange behaviour?