VMware Tools installed (latest available directly from VMware)Įverything in the VM is 'stock' meaning I haven't and probably can't alter the hardware profile. MacOS High Sierra 10.13.5 installed from ISO then upgraded to 10.13.6 from App StoreĤGB assigned to the VM (of the 12GB physical hardware RAM)Ģ 'CPUs' assigned to the VM (meaning I just have it set for 1 CPU 2 cores, using the extra two threads from Hyperthreading causes some audio glitches with the VM) VMware Workstation 15.0.3 (unlocked with Donk's unlocker) Windows 7 Professional 圆4 fully updated as of March 15th (no issues whatsoever)ĭoing a speedtest from my ISP I get ~950Mbps results, downloading large contiguous files from some services gives me 70-90MB/s (that's Megabytes per second) sustained bandwidth during the downloads. Gigabit Internet service (I regularly pull 950-960Mbps without issues) Samsung 860 EVO 500GB SATA SSD (540MB/s reads and 520MB/s writes tested and verified regularly, no issues) I have a Windows 7 VM that I created for testing purposes, so here's the setup in terms of the physical host hardware:ġ2GB of DDR3 1600 (dual channel mode, gets about 22GB/s reads and 21GB/s writes so it's fast enough) But I've noted - over the years this has always been the case with using macOS or OSX in VMware Workstation as a guest OS sitting on top of Windows - that the actual networking performance is pretty lackluster and I've always wondered why. I've gone through the vmware logs until my eyes bleed - lots of interesting but useless information.Ĭurrently using VMware Workstation 15.0.3, with High Sierra 10.13.6 fully updated - Mojave has some issues because of changes to how the GUI is drawn so the performance is slower so I stick with High Sierra.

I'm sure this is a vmware issue, but I was hoping maybe a reader has seen this before and has some ideas. All the Windows VMs came through fine, but the Mac is stuck in a perpetual re-boot cycle. Brain fart on my part, I should have backed up all of my virtual machines. It kept nagging at me, so I finally allowed it to install. Then came the VM Workstation 14.1.6 update. I've been using it for the last 4 months.

Using unlocker, etc, I was easily able to create a Mac workstation (what the hell do you call this - mac, macos, apple, mac VM? lol, I don't have the lingo down right.). Plus, there was some s/w I wanted to try that would only work on the mac. As a developer, I always have an interest in learning new things, and some of my co-workers are Apple advocates. One of these VMs was a macOS High Sierra install. So, I have a fairly high end laptop that has enabled me to push much of my development environment into virtual machines. Bear with me please, the vmware site is almost hopeless, so I ran across insanelymac.

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