Disable side-channel mitigations in VMWare Player

Learn how to enable or disable Hyper-V in Windows here. Note that the message with a recommendation to disable side-channel mitigations appears only on systems with Hyper-V enabled. The software will warn you about potential performance downgrades when using a virtual machine with side-channel mitigations.īut the problem is that VMWare Player does not provide an option to disable side-channel mitigations in the settings UI (similar to how it does not allow you to add a Trusted Platform Module inside settings for a specific VM).įortunately, you can fix poor performance in Windows 11 running in VMWare Player by disabling side-channel mitigations in the machine's configuration file. The DVD Image (ISO) Installer is used to create a DVD version used to install on virtual machines or systems with a DVD drive.You might encounter one particular issue when running a Windows 11-based virtual machine in VMWare Player. The entire hard drive will be overwritten, dual booting with another OS is not supported. This is the preferred means of running pfSense software.

The USB memstick image is meant to be written to a USB flash drive before use and includes an installer that installs pfSense software to the hard drive on your system. If you purchased a Netgate product, refer to the product manual for your appliance to see which reinstall image you need. The Netgate ADI image only supports a serial installation from memstick and does not come with VGA option. The amd64 architecture (which works even on Intel 64-bit CPUs) can address more memory and may have other performance advantages, but requires a compatible CPU. If you have a 64-bit capable CPU, use the amd64 version. You can determine the files needed for your install by reading the rest of this page for guidance.

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