Installed the lastest update for the Avast Free and my VMware guests ran v-slow. Tried a few things found an old post (2013) that said turn off Enable hardware-assisted virualization (under Troubleshooting), did that a reboot and all is well again. Turning off the shield did not help.
VMware Workstation 12 Player version 12.1.0 build-3272444. Tried mulitple guests Linux and Windows. Noticed a VM hardware version 10 guest was not affected, but the hardware 11.x and 12.0 all affected.
Unusable slow. Loaded a guest VM the browser was juddering, CPU high on any process that was trying to do anything (that was when I started wondering on what was going on). Restarted the guest the VM when starting showed a starting bar along the bottom, I have never seen this before, so think it normally clears quickly before being displayed. Then I watched a starting bar on each slow VM. The VM bios text displayed one line a time, then clears one line at a time. The choose a boot device screen displays a line a time. I did not even need to boot into an OS to work out it was slow.
Switched off Enable hardware-assisted virualization and rebooted, like a light switch, day and night difference. Now back to normal, full speed bios displays normally.
So is the ‘fix’ to this to leave Enable hardware-assisted virualization turned off? Any update from Avast to acknowledge this issue or to say it is my and my system?