Virtualization on Framework 13

Framework Laptop 13
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Hello everyone,

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 am grateful for your answers :slight_smile:

Regards

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Take a look at this thread:

TL;DR: Every v17.6.* release has performance issue that has yet to be addressed properly. Stay with v17.5.2.

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My setup:
FW 13 AMD 7840U
96 RAM

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.

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Linux hosts don’t have this performance issue with Workstation Pro 17.6.*. The OP has a Windows host.

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I use KVM ob Fedora host and Windows guest. The configuration is AMD 5 7640U with DDR5 32gb RAM.

It might not fit for your case, since you want to keep it on hypervisor, but this was the best virtualization experience in this laptop so far.

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Hello, Thanks for your responses !

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 !

Thanks :slight_smile:

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Just posting this…VMWare Workstation Pro 17.6.4 has been released, and appears to have resolved the performance issue related to Windows 11 hosts.

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