This is because VMware Player uses the allocated hardware exclusively there are other versions of VMware (pay ones) that can dynamically share the resources with the host. In that case, your system should have at least 8 GB RAM, 4 processors in your CPU, an Nvidia graphics card with 1 GB RAM, in order to keep resources for your system and for VMware Player.īelow these 'minimum requirements', you will not get a satisfying functioning of a virtual machine.īasically speaking, if you want to use host and guest, you need twice the hardware needed for one OS. In order to have Windows 10 work correctly, the host should have at least 4 GB RAM, 2 processors, 512 MB of graphics memory and accelerated graphics. So, the results you get depends on the hardware resources available, and the way they are shared between host and guest. I have an SSD on my system, it fastens disk accesses from the host and the guest.įinally, you need to install VMware tools in your guest (whatever its OS, Windows or Linux) to have the maximum profit of VMware player.

And I allow 1 GB of graphics display RAM, taken from the 3 GB available on my Nvidia card.

I have also selected the three virtualization available options.Īnd, since I have an Nvidia graphics card, WMware can use hardware accelerated graphics for my guest, where OpenGL 4.5, Direct-X 12 and Direct 3D are available (it is possible only when an Nvidia card is used). The way a host can work depends on the resources that you allow to it through the virtual machine software: I allow to my guest 8GB or RAM (taken from the 16 GB available on my system) and 4 processors (among the 8, 4 physic ones and 4 virtual ones) taken from my CPU. I use VMware Workstation Player for Linux, 16.2.4 revision, and it works very well with a Windows 10 Pro guest.

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