Can't access shared folders when logged into VMW as admin

[Jonathan Dixon]

I've got VMWare workstation Pro 17 running on W11 with Linux Mint 21.3 guest.

 

The PC is a HP Spectre x360 and it runs VMW slowly. Googling suggests it is to do with the e-cores and if I run VMW as admin it runs much quicker.

 

In Mint I have shared folders set up to mount on boot using 

ShareName GuestLocation fuse.vmhgfs-fuse allow_other 0 0

If I'm running VMW on the host machine normally I can access the shared folders ok. However, if I run as admin I get a permission error.

I've tried changing to

ShareName GuestLocation fuse.vmhgfs-fuse allow_root 0 0

but this doesn't help.

 

Any ideas?

[Technogeezer]

I think you're right about the e-cores. The CPU in your CPU is a Intel Core Meteor Lake architecture chip - which means it probably exhibits the same Windows scheduling issues as other Alder Lake or newer chips that have e-cores and p-cores.

Try modifying the power throttling settings on the vmware-vmx.exe executable by opening a command prompt as administrator and running the following:

powercfg /powerthrottling disable /path "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation\x64\vmware-vmx.exe"

 This may give you improved performance on Workstation without having to run it as an administrator. 

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- Paul (technogeezer)
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[Jonathan Dixon]

Cheers for that.

Unfortunately I already tried that though, found it made it worse!