My Issue

VM stuttering when booting up.

Resources

• Disable Hyper-V to run virtualization software – Windows Client | Microsoft Learn
• “VMware Workstation and Device/Credential Guard are not compatible” error in VMware Workstation on Windows 10 host (2146361)
• i7-12700K Only using E-Cores – VMware Workstation : r/vmware (reddit.com)
• VMware workstation 17 Windows Performance Optimiza… – VMware Technology Network VMTN
• Solved: VMware Workstation 16 very slow on Windows 11 – VMware Technology Network VMTN

Fixes

Turning Off Hyper-V

Check if Hyper-V hypervisor is running

1. Run msinfo32
2. Select System Summary
3. In the detail window, locate the following entry

A hypervisor has been detected. Features required for Hyper-V will not be displayed.

Disabling

Disable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V-Hypervisor

BCDEdit

Checking

Run the following command and look for hypervisorlaunchtype

#RunAs Administrator
bcdedit /enum

Disabling

bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off

Turn off Windows Memory Isolation

Fix

1. Open Windows Settings
2. Go to Privacy & Security > Windows Security
3. Open Windows Security
4. Go to Device Security > Core Isolation details
5. Turn off Memory Integrity

E-Core

Fix

If your computer has e-core, append the following lines in config.ini file available in %ProgramData%\VMware\VMware Workstation

The sample code below are for 4 hyper-threaded P-core and 8 E-core, where Proc0 to Proc7 is hyperthreaded core for P-cores

Processor0.use = "TRUE"
Processor1.use = "TRUE"
Processor2.use = "TRUE"
Processor3.use = "TRUE"
Processor4.use = "TRUE"
Processor5.use = "TRUE"
Processor6.use = "TRUE"
Processor7.use = "TRUE"
Processor8.use = "FALSE"
Processor9.use = "FALSE"
Processor10.use = "FALSE"
Processor11.use = "FALSE"
Processor12.use = "FALSE"
Processor13.use = "FALSE"
Processor14.use = "FALSE"
Processor15.use = "FALSE"