How-To Running VMware Workstation on a Low-Cost Mini PC I ran some benchmarking tools on the ACEMAGIC AD15 Mini PC in a previous article. I found that it was very performant with its 8-core/16-thread Intel Core i7 11800H Processor. This led me to believe that VMware Workstation would perform very well on it. Workstation is … Read more
How to Pass Host Hardware Information to a VMware Workstation VM There are various reasons why you may want to reflect the actual hardware the VM is running on rather than as a VM; by adding these three lines to the VMware configuration file, you can easily reflect this. If you’ve followed my series of … Read more
How to Autostart VMware Workstation VMs In my series of articles on using VMware Workstation on an Intel NUC 13 Pro Desk Edition PC (starting here), I configured a half dozen or so virtual machines (VMs) as thin clients so I could use them for demonstrations and testing. It worked fine, but recently, Windows 11 … Read more