VMX settings for improving Kali VM performance under VMware.
A handful of settings appended to a Kali VM’s .vmx file that noticeably improve responsiveness under VMware, particularly on memory-constrained hosts.
mainMem.useNamedFile = "FALSE"MemTrimRate = "0"sched.mem.pshare.enable = "FALSE"prefvmx.useRecommendedLockedMemSize = "TRUE"sched.cpu.min = "0"sched.cpu.max = "1000"scsi0.virtualSSD = "TRUE"disk.EnableUUID = "TRUE"mks.vsync = "FALSE"ethernet0.coalescingScheme = "disabled"ethernet0.virtualDev = "vmxnet3"Shut the VM down before editing the .vmx file, and back it up first in case any of these settings aren’t supported by your VMware version.
