This is the characteristics of my Framework 13 :
CPU : 13th Gen Intel(R) Core™ i7-1360P 2.20 GHz
RAM : 32,0 Go
GPU : Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics
I am working in cybersecurity field.
My host is a Windows 11 pro. I am using VMware Workstation Pro to virtualize an Ubuntu VM to do some pentests on my free time.
I used many differents configuration for example I allocated many RAM (12GB) after less etc but the VM is still really slow. For example, in a terminal it is ok but to use such tools like Burpsuite even to open Firiefox it takes around 10 or 15s.
Does anyone have a good configuration or a tips to have something very smooth ? Are you using something else than VMware Workstation Pro ? Idealy I would like to keep this hypervisor.
I’ve never tried a graphical OS in a VM on Windows 11 other than in VirtualBox where I run 32-bit Windows 7 Home. It works okay. In VirtualBox I set paravirtualization to default because it seems to be different on Windows 11 from earlier versions of Windows. I suspect it defaults to Hyper-V paravirtualization to avoid conflicts with Windows 11’s own use of Hyper-V.
I do run Ubuntu in Windows 11’s WSL2, but I only use command line, though I believe graphical is supposed to work well too. Obviously it isn’t quite standard Ubuntu, I think the kernel is hacked about to make it WSL2 compatible.
My primary OS is Fedora but I have a Win 11 VM using VMWare. I have 24GB of RAM allocated to it (Windows is a memory hog). I havent had any issues in the VM other than a fan spin up but I reckon that would be normal considering elevated CPU utilization during virtualization.
My recommendation would be to allocate whatever resources you have available without your main OS taking a dive.
Personally I still have the 17.5.2 build-23775571 version.
I would like to find the best configuration to run an Ubuntu Virtual machine on a Windows host. If anyone has a super speed and effective configuration it will be great !
