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VMWare Workstation: Disable logging, caching, pagefile & enable faster ethernet

VMWare Workstation: Disable logging, caching, pagefile & enable faster ethernet

When creating new VMX files, edit the vmx file and add:

logging = FALSE // disable all VMX logging
vmx.scoreboard.enabled = "FALSE" // disable creation of scoreboard files
mainmem.useNamedFile = "false" // disable creating pagefile on windows host
mainmem.backing = "swap" // disable creating swap file on linux host

When using a virtual ethernet device, it can be upgraded to use vmxnet3 instead of e1000e to be a little bit faster: ethernet0.virtualDev = "vmxnet3" // default is e1000e, which is slower