Linux in VMware

[FPS Megaduck]

Hello,

I have recently downloaded VMware Workstation Player, and set a VM  with Linux Mint running on it. However, the performance hit is significant. Linus has shown that you can game on a virtual machine with virtually an insignificant performance hit. I was curious why that is, and if anyone has any advice to reduce the performance hit. 

My PC's specs are a 3770k, 16 gb of Ram, and a GTX 660 ti if that matters at all. 

[MblaZe7run]

What hardware did you allocate to the VM?

[FPS Megaduck]

2 Cores

8 Gb of Ram.

It will not let me pass through the GPU though

[MblaZe7run]

1 minute ago, FPS Megaduck said:

2 Cores

8 Gb of Ram.

It will not let me pass through the GPU though

Plenty of hardware for Linux.. what exactly are you trying to do?

 

I pretty much restrict VMs to sandboxing new applications or more recently (as in within the last 30 minutes) developing my own personal Hangouts bot.

[FPS Megaduck]

Its mostly a latency thing when typing text. There is a two second delay for anything I type in and I'm not sure why. 

Edit: It just feels sluggish when interacting with it.  

[twisties]

I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure you can't pass through the gpu to a VMware workstation virtual machine. 

 

This is because the host operating system is using the device. You may get 3d acceleration with it but it won't perform like linus's builds did.

 

You need a dedicated host os, like unraid or a hypervisor like vmware esxi for example. 

[KuJoe]

Have you installed VMware Tools? That should fix the sluggishness (at least it does for me).