Hi,
Glad to hear that the suggested vmx edit worked and that you have a solution.
@kasper wrote:
I do not see the vmxnet3 driver as now being mandatory from Microsoft?
Yeah.. it's not a big deal, but that's not what I said.
What I said is that the vmxnet3 driver is now an inbox driver.
A driver being an inbox driver does not make it mandatory.
What it means is that when you install Windows and happen to have a vmxnet3 device installed (which you probably don't) that Windows will detect it "out of the box" and install a driver for it without you having to install VMware Tools first. To put it differently, the vmxnet3 driver is already "in the windows 10 box" (not that we still install software from a box nowadays anymore, but oh well.)
As for installing VMware Tools not changing vmx settings... it better not.
VMware Tools is for configuring in guest software, not for changing hardware configuration.
You removing the vmci hardware device from the virtual hardware is a hardware configuration change and it should never be possible to change that by installing/uninstalling software in the guest (for security reasons)
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Wil
