VMware workstation 17 player notes

[ydyote]

Hello, not a bug or anything but I wanted to share what I needed to do for the workstation 17 player

I was doing this on windows 10

original list of chapters screenshot:

I will just list chapters I had to somehow adjust for my situation

"Installing VWware Unlocker"
I used this: https://github.com/DrDonk/unlocker/releases/tag/v4.2.3
I extracted the zip file and ran "unlock.exe" from admin cmd

"Installing macOS"
It was fine until "If the VM restarts and you get a 'CPU is disabled' error, close the error window, attempt to close the VM window, select 'Power Off' and reopen VMware."
I didn't try the rest of the stuff mentioned
I turned off vmware completely
I just added this to the .vmx file and saved it

cpuid.0.eax = "0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:1011"
cpuid.0.ebx = "0111:0101:0110:1110:0110:0101:0100:0111"
cpuid.0.ecx = "0110:1100:0110:0101:0111:0100:0110:1110"
cpuid.0.edx = "0100:1001:0110:0101:0110:1110:0110:1001"
cpuid.1.eax = "0000:0000:0000:0001:0000:0110:0111:0001"
cpuid.1.ebx = "0000:0010:0000:0001:0000:1000:0000:0000"
cpuid.1.ecx = "1000:0010:1001:1000:0010:0010:0000:0011"
cpuid.1.edx = "0000:0111:1000:1011:1111:1011:1111:1111"

and then just started the machine and it worked, maybe also the listed steps would work too but this was enough for me

[ydyote]

And I also disabled the "Virtual Machines with side channel mitigations" after I noticed the vm is kinda slow by adding this to the .vmx file

ulm.disableMitigations="TRUE"

[itsrn]

And I also disabled the "Virtual Machines with side channel mitigations" after I noticed the vm is kinda slow by adding this to the .vmx file

ulm.disableMitigations="TRUE"

Thanks a lot! It really helps and make the vm fast and smooth!