Hello,
I'm currently evaluating VMware Workstation Pro 12.5.7 build-5813279 to determine if I will buy a license.
The software runs on a laptop with the following specifications:
CPU: Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1505M v6 @ 3GHz (Turbo mode is 4GHz).
RAM: 32 GB @ 2400 MHz
SSD: 1TB Class 50 (a Toshiba XG3 M.2 NVMe)
Video: NVidia Quadro M1200
The host runs Kubuntu 17.04 (There is a bug in 17.10 that prevents WKS 12 from running).
The guest is, currently, a vm with Windows 10 Pro, with 24 GB of RAM allocated, and all CPU cores.
Now, to me, the hardware specifications look of very high performance, premium even.
The performance of the vm with Win 10 is, however, horrific.
The guest hangs often, the mouse behaves erraticaly, jumping on screen, the CPU goes to 100% for several seconds.
Are there some settings that must be configured in order to actually make the vm work?
I don't understand how can Workstation Pro be used on a laptop...