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I have a Dell laptop that came with a Windows 10 license. It seems reasonable to me that I should be able to run as many Windows 10 VMs as I want as long as I'm the only one using them and others do not access and can not remote into them. I have been using my full retail Windows 10 Pro for VMs on my Windows 10 Dell laptop. I just use them to isolate customers applications and the different development software and or versions each project needs. I've done some research and of course Desktop OS VM licensing is complicated and is all but hidden. Most just talk about VMs with a Server OS and that is pretty easy. Buy one Server OS license for upto 16 cores and you can run upto 2 VMs on the same ESXi host. The desktop VM licensing is a nightmare. You have OEM licenses that it looks like you can not use at all for VMs and then retail licenses that it looks like you can run one VM as long as no one accesses it remotely and then Windows Enterprise licenses that have different functionality and then are you running them on local hardware or on a third party hosting service and is it per device or per user and are use using Windows Software Assurance or Windows VDA subscription and on and on.  So... It looks like you can just get a full retail license and run local Windows 10 VMs and just have to mess with the fact that at any moment it will want to reactive as you've change the amount of RAM or CPUs and such. You may also need to buy on for each VM you want to run??? You can get a Windows Software Assurance or Windows VDA subscription for like $600 or so and have to pay each year but can run upto 5 Windows 10 VMs as you have to order 5 licenses minimum???

I'm working with some Win Server 2019 VMs and an app that is, I think, hard drive I/O intensive. Most everything you do it's reading and writing multiple sets of data/files in an SQL database. I've seen it run in some demos and it's a bit faster than when I run it. Is there anything that can be done to up the performance on the VMs? In the demos they were running on Hyper-V on a contemporary Intel NUC, nothing fancy. I just finished a new build at the end of the year with a AMD 5950x, WD NS850 SSD and a RTX 3080. Whenever I upgrade I end up testing Workstation Unity mode and this is the first build were it's very usable. Still, the app in the VM is slow to respond. Does Hyper-V have a performance edge on Workstation 15? I've given the VM 4 cores and 12GB of RAM and the VM files are on a data drive that is not booting the OS.

Not sure what changed or when as this used to work but I can no longer open shared folder in the host OS. Windows 10 Pro  - 10.0.15063 Build 15063 Workstation 12 Pro – 12.5.7 Build 5813279 I have a dual boot PC and if I run the same VM in the same version of Workstation 12 everything works as it should if I boot into Windows 7. ??? In the Windows 10 setup I can ping the Windows 10 host by IP and name. It’s only after I try and browse for shared folders that I get an error. First “The network name cannot be found.” and then if I run the diagnose option “Windows can’t communicate with the device or resource”. Issues found Windows can't communicate with the device or resource (##########) It is available but is not responding to connection attempts. A firewall or network security policy on the remote computer might be blocking the connection on port "file and print sharing resource". Make sure that the device or resource (##########) allows incoming connections for File and Printer Sharing Completed

I have many virtual machines running on three PCs. When I copy one virtual machine to two of the PCs, on both it runs fine but on the one Workstation 9 crashes when I try to edit this virtual machine's settings. I get the virtual machine settings window and can sometime click on one of the hardware objects but then it locks up and I have to end task. I tried copying it again and running a check disk but no luck. Both PCs have the same and latest update of WS 9. ???

I just did a clean install and updated Windows XP and AutoCAD. The mouse movement is always smooth and when selecting icons on the desktop or using the left click on the desktop to make a bounding box again all is fast and smooth. Whenever I click on the AutoCAD window there is a small pause to everything in AutoCAD really. I’ve found many threads on the mouse movement being an issue and setting the “Optimize mouse for games” option to never being the fix. In my setup though the mouse movement is still very smooth and fast in AutoCAD but when you try to draw a bounding box it lags for a second and when you try to double click it lags for a second and so on. It makes getting any work done really painful. The PC is new so it really should be much faster than it is. Motherboard: ASUS P9X79 DELUXE, Intel 3930k 3.2GHz - G.SKILL 64GB (8 x 8GB) DDR3 1600 Video Card: MSI HD7970 - R7970-2PMD3GD5 System Drive: Samsung 512GB 830 Series SSD Data Drive: Hitachi 4TB Power Supply: SeaSonic Platinum-1000W LG Blu-ray/HD DVD-ROM GGC-H20L 2 Dell 30" U3011 on Ergotron HD Dual-Monitor Arm

Using Workstation 6.5 can I open two sessions in two different windows? I need to see one on each monitor so I can easily compare them. I can do it brute force by launching a second instance of workstation but then the tabs get messed up and it sometimes gives errors regarding ownership.