VMware Workstation

As the subject mentions, it is slow to suspend or shutdown any guest on VMware Workstation Pro 17.6.1. This started after the update from 17.5.2. 

When I say slow, it somewhat freezes the VM itself for about 2-3 minutes and finally shuts down (or gets suspended). When I resume or boot a vm, no issues. 

All VM's are mostly Windows environment. 

I remember having this issue in the past, when updating to 17.5.2 and had ran the "bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off" command but this time, it is not helping me... (maybe it was something different... but I have this in my head)

Has anyone had this issue ?

Alex

Hello, I have exactly the same problem, have you already found a solution?

@Broadcom is there a fix?

As the subject mentions, it is slow to suspend or shutdown any guest on VMware Workstation Pro 17.6.1. This started after the update from 17.5.2. 

When I say slow, it somewhat freezes the VM itself for about 2-3 minutes and finally shuts down (or gets suspended). When I resume or boot a vm, no issues. 

All VM's are mostly Windows environment. 

I remember having this issue in the past, when updating to 17.5.2 and had ran the "bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off" command but this time, it is not helping me... (maybe it was something different... but I have this in my head)

Has anyone had this issue ?

Alex

Hello, I have exactly the same problem, have you already found a solution?

@Broadcom is there a fix?

As the subject mentions, it is slow to suspend or shutdown any guest on VMware Workstation Pro 17.6.1. This started after the update from 17.5.2. 

When I say slow, it somewhat freezes the VM itself for about 2-3 minutes and finally shuts down (or gets suspended). When I resume or boot a vm, no issues. 

All VM's are mostly Windows environment. 

I remember having this issue in the past, when updating to 17.5.2 and had ran the "bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off" command but this time, it is not helping me... (maybe it was something different... but I have this in my head)

Has anyone had this issue ?

Alex

No, we're at least three. :)

Especially when it comes to suspending a guest, it's a LOT slower than before. In my case, it appears the I/O write speed when suspending may have been limited (by Broadcom) to ~100 MB/s (i.e. hard drive speeds), whereas before there was no limit and my storage device is a LOT faster than that. What used to take a couple of seconds takes very much longer now.

I'm guessing it's either a bug or an artificial limitation, but it sure is very annoying.

(Also, I have similar issues with 3D hardware rendering, it's now become slow and glitchy so I've had to disable it in all my guests.)

If this doesn't improve soon, I guess I'll migrate to e.g. VirtualBox instead.

Hello, I have exactly the same problem, have you already found a solution?

@Broadcom is there a fix?

As the subject mentions, it is slow to suspend or shutdown any guest on VMware Workstation Pro 17.6.1. This started after the update from 17.5.2. 

When I say slow, it somewhat freezes the VM itself for about 2-3 minutes and finally shuts down (or gets suspended). When I resume or boot a vm, no issues. 

All VM's are mostly Windows environment. 

I remember having this issue in the past, when updating to 17.5.2 and had ran the "bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off" command but this time, it is not helping me... (maybe it was something different... but I have this in my head)

Has anyone had this issue ?

Alex

Hi Everyone, so you know, today I resolved the issue by updating to 17.6.2 (previously installed was 17.6.1). Lets hope this can help someone else looking for similar issue.

No, we're at least three. :)

Especially when it comes to suspending a guest, it's a LOT slower than before. In my case, it appears the I/O write speed when suspending may have been limited (by Broadcom) to ~100 MB/s (i.e. hard drive speeds), whereas before there was no limit and my storage device is a LOT faster than that. What used to take a couple of seconds takes very much longer now.

I'm guessing it's either a bug or an artificial limitation, but it sure is very annoying.

(Also, I have similar issues with 3D hardware rendering, it's now become slow and glitchy so I've had to disable it in all my guests.)

If this doesn't improve soon, I guess I'll migrate to e.g. VirtualBox instead.

Hello, I have exactly the same problem, have you already found a solution?

@Broadcom is there a fix?

As the subject mentions, it is slow to suspend or shutdown any guest on VMware Workstation Pro 17.6.1. This started after the update from 17.5.2. 

When I say slow, it somewhat freezes the VM itself for about 2-3 minutes and finally shuts down (or gets suspended). When I resume or boot a vm, no issues. 

All VM's are mostly Windows environment. 

I remember having this issue in the past, when updating to 17.5.2 and had ran the "bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off" command but this time, it is not helping me... (maybe it was something different... but I have this in my head)

Has anyone had this issue ?

Alex

Hi Everyone, so you know, today I resolved the issue by updating to 17.6.2 (previously installed was 17.6.1). Lets hope this can help someone else looking for similar issue.

No, we're at least three. :)

Especially when it comes to suspending a guest, it's a LOT slower than before. In my case, it appears the I/O write speed when suspending may have been limited (by Broadcom) to ~100 MB/s (i.e. hard drive speeds), whereas before there was no limit and my storage device is a LOT faster than that. What used to take a couple of seconds takes very much longer now.

I'm guessing it's either a bug or an artificial limitation, but it sure is very annoying.

(Also, I have similar issues with 3D hardware rendering, it's now become slow and glitchy so I've had to disable it in all my guests.)

If this doesn't improve soon, I guess I'll migrate to e.g. VirtualBox instead.

Hello, I have exactly the same problem, have you already found a solution?

@Broadcom is there a fix?

As the subject mentions, it is slow to suspend or shutdown any guest on VMware Workstation Pro 17.6.1. This started after the update from 17.5.2. 

When I say slow, it somewhat freezes the VM itself for about 2-3 minutes and finally shuts down (or gets suspended). When I resume or boot a vm, no issues. 

All VM's are mostly Windows environment. 

I remember having this issue in the past, when updating to 17.5.2 and had ran the "bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off" command but this time, it is not helping me... (maybe it was something different... but I have this in my head)

Has anyone had this issue ?

Alex

It's still the exact same problem for me, with both 17.6.2 and 17.6.3: resuming is fast but suspending is really slow.

(Also, 3D hardware rendering is as glitchy as before, and I must still have it disabled in all of my guests.)

Hi Everyone, so you know, today I resolved the issue by updating to 17.6.2 (previously installed was 17.6.1). Lets hope this can help someone else looking for similar issue.

No, we're at least three. :)

Especially when it comes to suspending a guest, it's a LOT slower than before. In my case, it appears the I/O write speed when suspending may have been limited (by Broadcom) to ~100 MB/s (i.e. hard drive speeds), whereas before there was no limit and my storage device is a LOT faster than that. What used to take a couple of seconds takes very much longer now.

I'm guessing it's either a bug or an artificial limitation, but it sure is very annoying.

(Also, I have similar issues with 3D hardware rendering, it's now become slow and glitchy so I've had to disable it in all my guests.)

If this doesn't improve soon, I guess I'll migrate to e.g. VirtualBox instead.

Hello, I have exactly the same problem, have you already found a solution?

@Broadcom is there a fix?

As the subject mentions, it is slow to suspend or shutdown any guest on VMware Workstation Pro 17.6.1. This started after the update from 17.5.2. 

When I say slow, it somewhat freezes the VM itself for about 2-3 minutes and finally shuts down (or gets suspended). When I resume or boot a vm, no issues. 

All VM's are mostly Windows environment. 

I remember having this issue in the past, when updating to 17.5.2 and had ran the "bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off" command but this time, it is not helping me... (maybe it was something different... but I have this in my head)

Has anyone had this issue ?

Alex