Workstation 17 Pro - Chronically Slow on Windows 11 Enterprise

[Jeremy Jervis]

Prior to upgrade - V17.6.2 working ok on Windows10 Enterprise on Dell Laptop

Upgraded Laptop O/S to Windows11 Enterprise 10.0.2.22631 Build 22631

Now chronically slow - product unusable

Uninstalled WMWare and re-installed V17.5.2 - no improvement 

What do I need to do to get the product to work with the new O/S

[RaSystemlord]

It's not about Windows alone: it's about processor, bios settings and possibly security software and AD policies. All of those are potentially also changed during the Windows Update, or need to be changed (except the processor which is unaffected but can be the culprit).

Read my own threads where it is explained in more detail. As for running 17.5.2. with Windows 11 Pro 24H2, Intel processor 13rd Gen (in my tests with MANY guest OS's) by default, you do not need to do nothing - everything works by default. As for 17.6.x - I have no idea. As for Nested Virtualization, I have no idea. I don't think that Win 11 Enterprise makes any difference to Pro, in terms of being slow.

[RaSystemlord]

... as an addition to my post just now ... Windows 11 and AMD processor are the deciding things ... just a guess what you might have there. I have not tested Win 11 and AMD combination. I'm running tens of VMs with AMD Ryzen (3 years old) and Win 10 Pro "all the time".

[Fabio Giacomelli]

I have the same problem, one thing I discovered is that in version 23h2 of windows 11 I don't have this problem, when I directly install windows 24h2 my CISCO FMC VM becomes unusable, look how funny if I have version 23h2 and I update it to 24h2 the problem doesn't happen, it only happens if I directly install 24h2

[RaSystemlord]

Fabio: Based on what "upgrade" really means in the other post, you do not have the same problem.

About your problem: Do you mean that you are upgrading or reinstalling the Host? It is not clear.

Upgrade and reinstall are not the same things. You do not say that the Windows gets slow - only on VM gets slow. Is that so?

If so, and you did reinstall the Host, it means that your Cisco VM (which I'm not familiar with - what is it anyway and what does it do?) is somehow dependent on the Host. It IS dependent on the Host architecture and in this case - a bit far-fetched but the remaining explanation - it depends on the Host drivers. Did you say "I copied it" ? - if you didn't, you may have wrong drivers/connection to Host architecture/technology. That is easy to correct, just rename the VM directory and start it - and go from there.

If you have Nested virtualization with the Cisco-thingy, which you do not mention, then it is quite a different ball game.

According to my tests, Windows 11 Pro VM is always very slow, 2 times slower than the Host. But that hardly means unusable, if your Dell laptop is any good.