Clean install of Windows 11 Build 22533.1001 on VMware Player 16.2.2

Hi Johnny,

This looks new to me, have not seen this message when I installed on the old box.

I don't know what this means, I guess I will have to figure it out. 😉

Another new message:

Still got to wait about 60 secs for the timeout before it popped up the boot menu, then I selected the Virtual CDROM using the down arrow and pressed enter, then enter again on the next message for DVD loading....

When on this menu I can also Enter Setup and change the boot order but did not find a way to get to the setup directly before getting to this point.

And it booted from the Virtual SATA CDROM when I selected it on the menu.

I used the official 22533.1001 ISO.

Optimize works on the NVMe SSD, clearly not on the CD-ROM that should not even show on this screen:

Memory Integrity cannot turn on for the Virtual Machine, even if it is on and fine on the Host.

The installation of 22533 takes much longer on this VM guest with a fully compliant Windows 11 Host than it takes on my old MSI legacy BIOS Laptop.

Unless there is a better setting with the Pro version of VMplayer to improve the performance, this looks quite slow on a Fast Desktop like the XPS 8930.

Really not impress with this at all. The V.M. passes for all the requirements, but the performance is pitiful.

And they want 200-250 $ for this! 😛

Hi fg,

Thanks for confirming the optimization not available. It was always available on legacy bios host and legacy vm. Not sure what is up with that. Only other change is I use a TB SSD for the vm's. In the past it was a spare HDD.

Will get into the other issue regarding booting with UEFI host and guest later. My brothers, I really hate UEFI. lol

Regards,

Hi Johnny,

On the MSI laptop where I did last tests, I have 2 mSATA SSDs in Raid mode, but the optimization problem only showed up with Legacy VM, it worked fine on the C: volume when I installed the UEFI guest.

The hardware and the Host are the same for both situations, but clearly the emulation done by VM is different for the 2 cases.

This was a Legacy BIOS MSI Laptop with Host Build 19044.1466.

1. Tried 22533.1001 UEFI Guest, no problem with Optimize on the C: Volume.
2. Tried 19044.1288 Legacy Bios guest and showed No Optimize available on Both C: Volume and System reserved volume.

Hi Johnny,

I think I'll jump to the next step.

Install VM Player 16.2.1 on a fully compliant Windows 11 Host now at 22000.438.

I'll let you know the results later. Stay tuned.

On another subject:

I saw you describing some medical issues earlier, I went through a U.T.I. a couple of months back and it was pretty nasty, never experience that before.

It started with chills and fever and, at first, I thought I had Covid, but the test turned out negative, then the symptoms developed differently and had to get antibiotics for 10 days to get over the infection.

Hi fg,

Thanks for confirming the optimization not available. It was always available on legacy bios host and legacy vm. Not sure what is up with that. Only other change is I use a TB SSD for the vm's. In the past it was a spare HDD.

Will get into the other issue regarding booting with UEFI host and guest later. My brothers, I really hate UEFI. lol

Regards,

@Sibro.o, @Johnny_55,

I know, I use the free version, not paying a license for a test even if I own VMware shares 😉.

I bought a lifetime license more than a decade ago, it was an special offer very cheap back then.