VMWare Player 17 install queries:

Hi,

Before I start, had a bad experience installing it on my laptop's PCI Gen 4 WD M.2 2280 NVMe drive with a clean install of W11, but glad had a last full backup and restored.

1. Should W11 Pro's, Hyer-V and it's subcomponents be checked? I didn't earlier....
2. During install of the VM player should WMP be checked?
3. Since the laptop atm has only 1 drive (Dell is out of stock M.2 2230), path should be on C (W11) drive?
4. Files should be split or single?
5. 60 GB of space on drive and 6-8 gigs of memory are ample to test Windows, Linux distros?
6. Should enhanced keyboard support be enabled? Am using Dell wireless KB, mouse.
7. Can my laptop's Hardware support VMWare 17 player?

Sorry for asking noob questions, since at this age the only thing I know is med.
Would appreciate any experienced, easy to understand replies.
Thanks.

1. Although VM 17 will coexist with Hyper-V, it plays better without Hyper-V installed

2. Up to you

3. Sure but bear in mind virtual hard drive files will also be n C drive and can get quite space consuming Also, if you make image backups these can get quite large

4. Only reason to split them is to store them as backups on fat32 media. Better to have single files backed up to exfat or ntfs.

5. yes

6. hard to say - test it yourself

7. Most hardware will support VM 17 but you really need 16 GB RAM minimum and plenty of spare disk space say 250 GB.

Note VM 17 is newish and many have reverted to V16 until teething issues sorted out.

cereberus said:

1. Although VM 17 will coexist with Hyper-V, it plays better without Hyper-V installed

2. Up to you

3. Sure but bear in mind virtual hard drive files will also be n C drive and can get quite space consuming Also, if you make image backups these can get quite large

4. Only reason to split them is to store them as backups on fat32 media. Better to have single files backed up to exfat or ntfs.

5. yes

6. hard to say - test it yourself

7. Most hardware will support VM 17 but you really need 16 GB RAM minimum and plenty of spare disk space say 250 GB.

Note VM 17 is newish and many have reverted to V16 until teething issues sorted out.

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Thanks for replying.

1. W11 Hyper-V and it's subcomponents are unchecked but virtualization in BIOS is checked...is that fine?

3. I had that in mind, better to wait get the slot#2 M.2 2230 and than install, agreed would make W11 backups large.

7. My laptop has 16 GB of memory and 450 GB of free space, but I think would be better to wait for the other drive and keep this only for W11. Once I get it would keep that for Data (Downloads, Documents, Pictures, Music etc.) and for VM player files....and hopefully what ever issues are might be sorted.

Thanks again.
Regards!

Alexey2912 said:

Thanks for replying.

1. W11 Hyper-V and it's subcomponents are unchecked but virtualization in BIOS is checked...is that fine?

3. I had that in mind, better to wait get the slot#2 M.2 2230 and than install, agreed would make W11 backups large.

7. My laptop has 16 GB of memory and 450 GB of free space, but I think would be better to wait for the other drive and keep this only for W11. Once I get it would keep that for Data (Downloads, Documents, Pictures, Music etc.) and for VM player files....and hopefully what ever issues are might be sorted.

Thanks again.
Regards!

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1) Should be ok. Trial and error.

2) You could experiment and move files later?

3) With 16 GB, I would assign max 6GB for one vm. If running two assign each maxium of 4 GB. Yiu really need more ram to run 3 or more vms at same time.