
I thought this was possible starting with 15.5.5, am I missing anything obvious? Now I know that Hyper-V and other VMs were always in conflict with each other but as per this article: I can work around this by disabling all CPU virtualization in the settings but that makes the VMs run a bit sluggish. However after that my VMware VMs wouldn't start anymore with the following error:Įrror while powering on: VMware Player does not support nested virtualization on this host.
VMware Workstation Pro can be used in free trial mode right after installation for a 30-day trial period. Users who want to upgrade their previous version of VMware Workstation Player to VMware Workstation Player 15 can do it for 80. In the same vein I tried out WSL2 on Windand as per Microsoft's instructions I enabled (a part?) of Hyper-V:ĭism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:VirtualMachinePlatform /all /norestart The price for a commercial license of VMware Player 15 is 150 for new installations. The default value of video memory varies by guest OS.First of all I should say that I only casually use virtualization to mess around with Linux and old Windows versions here and there and VMware Workstation Player 15.5.6 has been more than enough for me for that.
(Optional) Select the maximum amount of guest memory that can be used for graphics memory using the drop-down menu. Select a resolution from the list or type a setting that has the format width x height, where width and height are the number of pixels. After you power on the virtual machine, the guest operating system sees the number of monitors that you specified. It is also useful if you are developing a multimonitor application in a virtual machine and the host system has only one monitor. This setting is useful if you use a multimonitor host system and you need to test in a virtual machine that has only one monitor. Set the number of monitors that the virtual machine will see, regardless of the number of monitors on the host system. You should select this setting in most cases. I installed Ubuntu on the VM, set it up, and everything worked perfectly in terms of window resizing. The guest monitors cannot exceed the maximum bounding box that the SVGA driver uses, 7680x4320. Guest OS stopped resizing VMWare Workstation 15 Player. The virtual machine uses the number of monitors on the host system.
When you select this setting, the SVGA driver uses a maximum bounding box width of 7680 and a maximum bounding box height of 4320.
Specify whether host settings determine the number of monitors.
(Optional) To run applications that use DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 10.1 or DirectX 11 accelerated graphics, select Accelerate 3D graphics. Select the virtual machine and select Player > Manage > Virtual Machine Settings.