As the title says I'm struggling with (terrible) performance on my Ubuntu Guest VM. I'm running VMWare Workstation 12 on a Windows 10 x64 host. The host should be more than capable of running this VM, and in fact runs other, more demanding Windows- and Linux based VMs fine.
Given that "all other" guest VMs runs fine, I assume the problem is with my Ubuntu installation. I've recently installed it using VMWare's auto / simple installation and also made sure I've updated VMWare-tools. I've never had this problem with other Ubuntu installations on VMWare before, so I'm not sure where to begin troubleshooting.
By terrible performance I mean: Input lag (up to 3-400 ms input latency), slow animations (especially when switching virtual desktops) and general "sluggishness". There are also graphical glitches occurring at infrequent intervals ("see-trough"; sections of a window will disappear and show the window in the background).
Host specifications
- i7-6700HQ, 2.6Ghz
- 32Gb memory
- PCI-e nvme SSD
- Geforce GTX 960M
Guest (VM)
- 1 cpu, 2 cores
- 8Gb memory
- Single image, 80Gb
I've also posted this question to askubuntu.com
