I was asked to upgrade my VM ware player today. I clicked yes and the updater ran and asked for a restart.
This actually completely removed my installed vmware player!!
I downloaded the latest version and installed that but get this message:
You are running this virtual machine with side channel mitigations enabled. Side channel mitigations provide enhanced security but also lower performance.
To disable mitigations, change the side channel mitigations setting in the advanced panel of the virtual machine settings. Refer to VMware KB article 79832 at URL for more details.
However the instructions don't say how to do this on vmware player.
