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Is anyone else having performance issues with Windows 10 x64 guests under VMware Workstation 11? I have installed VMware tools in Windows 10 and everything seems to work aside from the random lag... Additionally, everything is in working order in my Windows 7 x64 VM (showing there is not a host setup issue).
The main issue I am noticing are huge lags at seemingly random times. It is so bad it sometimes will hang the host temporarily. Oddly, it seems related to the GPU or something. Whenever I have Chromium open in Arch, and Chrome open in Windows 10, this seems to trigger it. If I close Chromium on Arch, it seems to stop the lag on the Windows 10 guest (odd, I know).
Specs:
Intel Ivy Bridge i7 - 4 core (2 allocated to VM)
32 GB memory (16GB allocated to VM)
Nvidia 770 GPU (using latest propriety nvidia driver)
MATE desktop
Any thoughts or ideas would be awesome. I have spent hours looking on google with no luck.
Thanks.
Last edited by lnxsrt (2015-08-11 01:06:49)
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Maybe a better question... Is anyone running Windows 10 in VMware with no issues at all?
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Although i don't have Windows 10 guest, the same situation happened in my virtual machines, Windows 7 guest and OpenSUSE 13.2 guest.
Just like your description, huge lags happened random times, and every time lasts 1~3 minutes.
In the most of cases, the cpu usage of vmware-vmx is 75%, and 100% in the worst case.
I hope someone could help us to solve this problem, it cause the host hangs at executing program sometimes.
By the way, according to 'Supported host operating systems for VMware Workstation', Arch Linux isn't on the list, there will be a problem?
My Specs:
Intel Core i7-2600K (6 allocated to VM)
16GB (4GB allocated to Ramdisk and 6 GB allocated to VM)
NVIDIA GTX 560 Ti
KDE 5 Desktop
Thank you.
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I also encountered these intermittent pauses and lag when running VMware Workstation. After thorough research and testing, the solution for me was to adjust the virtual memory defaults on the Arch host.
cat /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf...
# https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sysctl
vm.dirty_ratio = 1
vm.dirty_background_ratio = 1
# https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Swap
vm.swappiness = 10
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I also encountered these intermittent pauses and lag when running VMware Workstation. After thorough research and testing, the solution for me was to adjust the virtual memory defaults on the Arch host.
cat /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf... # https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sysctl vm.dirty_ratio = 1 vm.dirty_background_ratio = 1 # https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Swap vm.swappiness = 10 ...
After adjusting these settings, i still encounter lag when running VM.
A few days ago, i found this thread in VMware community.
After adjusting Transparent Huge Pages value, i think my situation have been improved.
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