As Windows Pro only supports 2 CPU sockets, after added 4 cores in VMware Fusion, the OS is still shown as 2 vCPU. To avoid this is, need to change cpuid.coresPerSocket to handle more than 2 cores.
In .vmx file change following parameter, numvcpus is the total number of cores, which can be changed in GUI. cpuid.coresPerSocket should be changed to half of numvcpus.
numvcpus = "4"
cpuid.coresPerSocket = "2"vmrun$ open -a "VMware Fusion"vmrun listvmrun start <vm_name>.vmxThis could be caused by some warning message appears on the screen.
Examples of vmrun Commands
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Fusion reports error, and it can not connect to USB drive to boot.
Fusion does not support USB adapters for connecting displays to your virtual machines.
Note: I haven't tried to change UEFI mode to BIOS mode, maybe this is the cause.
Unable to connect a USB device to a virtual machine (2118442)
USB Device not detected by the virtual machine (57195)
Configuring the USB Controller and Connecting USB Devices
Got following error when starting VM
No 3D Support is available from the Host - The 3D features of the virtual machine will be disabledAdd following lines in .vmx file
mks.enableMTLRenderer = "0"
mks.enableGLRenderer = "1"When trying to start a newly created virtual machine in VMware Fusion, following error occurred
Error: Could not open /dev/vmmon...This is because Fusion has no permssion to open device file required.
System software from vendor "VMware, Inc." was blocked from loading.Error: Could not open /dev/vmmon: Broken pipe, while launching the Virtual Machine (80467)
Fusion Pools are also known as ZFS Allocation Classes, ZFS Special vdevs, and Metadata vdevs.
A special vdev can store meta data such as file locations and allocation tables. The allocations in the special class are dedicated to specific block types. By default, this includes all metadata, the indirect blocks of user data, and any deduplication tables. The class can also be provisioned to accept small file blocks. This is a great use case for high performance but smaller sized solid-state storage. Using a special vdev drastically speeds up random I/O and cuts the average spinning-disk I/Os needed to find and access a file by up to half.
Go to Storage > Pools, click ADD, and select Create new pool.
A pool must always have one normal (non-dedup/special) vdev before other devices can be assigned to the special class. Configure the Data VDevs, then click ADD VDEV and select Metadata.
Add SSDs to the new Metadata VDev and select the same layout as the Data VDevs.
Using a Mirror layout is possible, but it is strongly recommended to keep the layout identical to the other vdevs. If the special vdev fails and there is no redundancy, the pool becomes corrupted and prevents access to stored data.
When more than one metadata vdev is created, then allocations are load-balanced between all these devices. If the special class becomes full, then allocations spill back into the normal class.
After the fusion pool is created, the Status shows a Special section with the metadata SSDs.
Auto TRIM allows TrueNAS to periodically check the pool disks for storage blocks that can be reclaimed. This can have a performance impact on the pool, so the option is disabled by default. For more details about TRIM in ZFS, see the autotrim property description in zpool.8.